Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

Combining wealth estimates from geowealth-us and mobility data from opportunity insights, I demonstrate a negative association between childhood exposure to wealth inequality and upward income mobility outcomes later in life.

Simulation exercises suggest that childhood exposure to local wealth inequality is more central to upward mobility than exposure to local income inequality itself.