Absolute mobility has plummeted

Percentage of children earning more than their parents, by birth cohort

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Source: Source: Chetty et al. "The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940." Science 356(6336): 398-406, 2017. Figure 1B. Data downloaded from www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/ Get the data