Inequality & Mobility

Inequality describes the extent to which resources or outcomes (e.g., income, wealth, consumption, health, education) are similarly or unevenly distributed among individuals, groups, populations, or societies. Mobility refers to the frequency with which individuals, groups, or populations within a society change social or economic position in areas such as income, wealth, education, occupation, and the like.

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Year Up: Providing a pathway from poverty to a professional career for urban young adults

  • Gerald Chertavian; Reaction by Carolyn Heinrich
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2013
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The long-term effects of teachers

  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2013
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Effects of value-added policies

  • Jesse Rothstein
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2013
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A Year Up

  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2013
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Value-added measures of teachers: Research and policy

  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2013
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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity

  • Barbara Wolfe and Jason Fletcher
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2013
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The Balance Sheets of Low-Income People

  • J. Michael Collins
  • Podcasts
  • 2012
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The Legacy of the War on Poverty’s Health Programs for Non-Elderly Adults and Children

  • Barbara Wolfe
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2012
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Reducing Income Inequality in Educational Attainment: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial Aid on College Completion

  • Sara Goldrick-Rab, Robert Kelchen, Douglas N. Harris, and James Benson
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2012
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Poverty and poor health: Can health care reform narrow the rich-poor gap?

  • Barbara Wolfe
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2012