UPWARD MOBILITY IS NOT MORE COMMON IN DEMOCRATIC-VOTING AREAS OR - TopicsExpress



          

UPWARD MOBILITY IS NOT MORE COMMON IN DEMOCRATIC-VOTING AREAS OR LESS COMMON REPUBLICAN-VOTING AREAS. From article: "... [T]he four economists who conducted the study ... ran the numbers multiple ways and concluded that there was effectively zero correlation between an area’s up-ward mobility and its political views.... [In areas] that voted for President Obama in 2012 ... the chance that a child born into a household in the bottom fifth of the income distribution had risen into the top fifth was 8.1 percent. In Romney areas, it was only marginally higher, 8.5 percent. When we expanded the analysis to look at children born into the bottom fifth who had made it into one of the top two fifths, the chances were 21.1 percent for Obama areas and 22.1 percent for Romney areas."
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:47:49 +0000

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