Robert Manduca, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy, is part of a team of researchers from Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley who have released an important new study of economic mobility in the U.S., which finds that only half of Americans in their thirties earn more than their parents did at the same age. A few decades ago, nearly all did.The study is featured in a New York Times op-ed column, "The American Dream, Quantified at Last."

The team was led by economist Raj Chetty of Stanford and Nathaniel Hendren of Harvard, principal investigators for the Equality of Opportunity project, in collaboration with sociologist David Grusky of Stanford. The study incorporates results from Manduca's independent working paper, “Opportunity No More: Declining Absolute Mobility in the United States, 1940-2010.”
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Learn more: Equality of Opportunity project