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Creating the American Opportunity Study: A New Tool to Study Trends in Social Mobility

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Creating the American Opportunity Study: A New Tool to Study Trends in Social Mobility

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Creating the American Opportunity Study
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Discusses the American Opportunity Study, its background, goals, envisioned data infrastructure, and project progress. This paper was presented at the Population Association of America 2016 Annual Meeting.

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American Opportunity Study: Technical Challenges
April 21, 2015
Discusses technical challenges in creating the American Opportunity Study (AOS), such as coverage, cost, identification of people and family relationships.
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Creating the American Opportunity Study
December 02, 2015
Discusses the American Opportunity Study (AOS), its goals for studying social mobility, the process of creating the AOS, and its progress.
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Challenges of Using Administrative Data Linkages to Evaluate Mobility
January 02, 2015
This article surveys available data and the issues surrounding the use of administrative records to vastly extend the study of intergenerational mobility.
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