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GreatGatsbyCurve:EmpiricalBackground
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…changes have taken place in ghetto neighborhoods, and the groups thathave been left behind are collectively different than those that lived in theseneighborhoods in earlier years. It is true that long-term welfare families andstreet criminals are distinct groups, but they live and interact in the samedepressed community and they are part of the population that has, with theexodus of the more stable working- and middle-class segments, becomeincreasingly isolated socially from mainstream patterns and norms ofbehavior
William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged
Only connect.
EM Forster, Howards End
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WorkbyMilesCorak claimedthatforasetofadvancedindustrializedeconomies,thereisapositivecorrelationbetweencross-sectioninequalityandthepersistenceofstatusbetweenparentsandoff-spring.
ThishasbeendubbedtheGreatGatsbyCurvebyAlanKrueger.
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Source: Corak (2013). Data is from OECD and CEA estimates. Economic mobility captured byintergenerational earnings elasticities derived from published studies (see Appendix to Corak (2013)for details). Income distribution captured by the Gini coefficient in 1985.
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Our interest is in the existence of an intertemporal Gatsby Curve for the United States.
Separate evidence exists for this possibility.
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StylizedFact2:Interplayoflocation,inequality,mobilityconsistentwithintertemporalGatsbyCurve
• Direct and indirect evidence.
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DirectEvidence:RisingIntergenerationalElasticities
Source: Aaronson and Mazumder (2008). 90-10 wage gap measured as the ratio of hourly wages between the top 10% and bottom 10% of wage earners. Return to college shows the rate of return to college education. Data taken from the decennial Censuses.
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Inequalityandmobilitytrendsovertime(US)
Source: Kearney and Levine (2015). Notes: The x-axis reflects the year in which income is measured for the90/50 and 50/10 ratios. For the mobility measure in Chetty et al. (2014b), year reflects birth cohort. For themobility measure in Lee and Solon (2009), year reflects the year in which the son’s income was recorded.
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• Indirectevidencefromlocationalpatterns.
• Basicidea:infersomethingaboutdynamicsfromcross-sectionalvariation.Standardintheempiricalintergenerationalmobilityliterature.
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LocationalHeterogeneityinMobilityIntergenerationalMobilityintheUS
Source: Chetty et al. (2014). Lighter colors represent areas where children from low-income families are more likely to move up in the income distribution.
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Relationshipbetweeninequalityandhighschoolnon-completion
Source: Kearney and Levine (2015). Notes: The graduation data is from Stetser and Stillwell (2014). The 50/10 ratios are calculated by the authors. The District of Columbia is omitted from this figure because it is an extreme outlier on the X axis (50/10 ratio = 5.66).
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StylizedFact3:SpatialSegregation
• Socioeconomic segregation is pervasive, along a range of important dimensions in human capital formation.
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Spatialconcentrationofpoverty
Source:Bishaw (2014).U.S.CensusBureau,2008-20125-yearAmericanCommunitySurvey.Mapshowspercentpovertyrateatthecensustractlevel,darkerblueindicatinghigherpovertyrates.
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Spatialconcentrationofpoverty
Source:RichBlocksPoorBlocks.DatatakenfromtheUSCensusBureau,AmericanCommunitySurvey20115-yearestimatesatthecensustractlevel.Greendenoteshigherincomeneighborhoodsandreddenoteslowerincomeneighborhoods.
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Increasingincomesegregation
Source:BischoffandReardon(2011).Verticalaxisreflectsasegregationindex.DatatakenfromU.S.Census(1970-2000)andAmericanCommunitySurvey(2005- 2011).Averagesincludeallmetropolitanareaswithatleast500,000residentsin2007andatleast10,000familiesofagivenraceineachyear1970-2009(oreachyear1980-2009forHispanics).
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Spatialconcentrationofpublicschoolspendingpercapita
Source:EducationWeek,U.S.CensusBureau,Mapbox,OpenStreetMap.Credit:KatieParkandAlysonHurt/NPR.Heatmapshowsthedeviationinpercapitapublicschoolexpenditurefromthenationalaverageof$11,841forschooldistrictsintheUS.
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Spendingperstudentbyschooldistrict,Texas
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Spatialconcentrationofexposuretoviolentcrime
Source:FindTheHome/FindTheBest usingFBIUniformCrimeReport.Themapisaheatmapofviolentcrimewithredbeinghighestcrimeratesandgreenbeinglowestcrimerates.Greyareasrepresentalackofcrimedata.DatabasedonFBIreportsonmurder,rape,robbery,andaggrevated assault.Crimeisreportedatthecountylevelandreportingisvoluntary.
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DistributionofhomicidesinChicago
Source:ChicagoTribune.AccessedMay21,2016.Intensityofhomicidesinaneighborhoodcapturedbytheshadeofblue.Dotsrepresentpreciselocationofhomicides.
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OurApproach
We focus on two mechanisms whose interactionsproduce an intertemporal Gatsby curve.
1. Social influences on individual outcomes.
2. Market frictions.