Research has found that high earnings inequality is associated with low intergenerational economic mobility, however, it has primarily focused on early life investments and less on relative pay in different industries. Sociologists Nathan Wilmers and Per Engzell will examine the extent to which firm-level practices affect intergenerational economic mobility.

While research has demonstrated robust relationships between historical racial violence and present-day issues – such as racial segregation, mortality, homicide rates, imprisonment rates, rates of Ku Klux Klan mobilization, and hate crimes – we know little about how events in the period between the late 19th/early 20thcentury and the present have influenced these associations. Sociologist Sarah Gaby will examine how the Civil Rights Movement impacted the relationship between historical racial violence and current day racism and racial inequality.