Opportunity Engines: Middle-Class Mobility in Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Reber, Sarah; Sinclair, Chenoah
Institution	Brookings Institution
Titel	Opportunity Engines: Middle-Class Mobility in Higher Education
Quelle	(2020), (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Social Mobility; College Role; Low Income Students; Middle Class; Socioeconomic Status; Selective Admission; Public Colleges; Private Colleges; Two Year Colleges; Generational Differences; College Attendance; Access to Education; Success + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Soziale Mobilität; Mittelschicht; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Bildungsselektion; Privathochschule; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Erfolg
Abstract	Inequality in the United States has been rising in recent decades, while intergenerational mobility remains low. This means that absolute mobility--the extent to which children are economically better off than their parents--is declining, and intergenerational inequality is increasingly entrenched. A long literature suggests large returns to attending college and points to the importance of higher education for intergenerational mobility. Recent work by Opportunity Insights explores in more detail the role that different colleges play in promoting upward mobility, pointing to significant differences across colleges in the extent to which they enroll students from low-income families who have high earnings as adults. This report uses data produced by Opportunity Insights to focus specifically on students from middle-class families to understand patterns of attendance and upward mobility for the middle class. Building on the College Scorecard Data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education, the Opportunity Insights Mobility Report Cards use de-identified data from tax returns, linked to information about colleges, to construct a publicly available database for colleges in the United States. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01