Economic Mobility

The Pew Economic Mobility Project has released a fact sheet that investigates how Americans' mobility outcomes compare with those of their counterparts in other nations. The summary, entitled "Does America Promote Mobility As Well As Other Nations?", previews key findings from a multi-country study of economic mobility led by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Sutton Trust. As part of the study, called Cross-National Research on Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage (CRITA), researchers in 10 countries investigated how socioeconomic advantage, as measured by parents' education, is transmitted over the course of one's life.