Note: If you have been given prior permission to take the ex…
Note: If you have been given prior permission to take the exam remotely (illness, etc), don’t forget that you need to scan your room and show both sides of any scratch paper you have with you! Is the US income distribution getting wider? (1 point) Support your argument making reference to data seen in class; explain how those data are measured and how that measure of the income distribution is calculated. (1 point) Now present data that support a different point of view and explain what it is that is different about those data from the measure. Why do you prefer your measure to this second one? Based on the data seen in class, do you think that it is getting easier or harder to move up in the income distribution than it used to be? (1 point) Support your argument making reference to data seen in class; explain both how those data are measured and how that measure of mobility is calculated. (1 point) Now present data that support a different point of view and explain what it is that is different about those data from the measure. Why do you prefer your measure to this second one? Raj Chetty et al show that relocation can often improve the odds of upward mobility. (1 point) What is one locational factor (social capital) that Chetty et al show impacts economic mobility? What factors do they control for to establish this correlation? (1 point) What is a second locational factor (social capital) that Chetty et al show impacts economic mobility? What factors do they control for to establish this correlation?
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