Opportunity Insights, Harvard University

Opportunity Insights (formally the Equality of Opportunity Project). Based at Harvard University, our team of researchers and policy analysts work together to analyze new data and create a platform for local stakeholders to make more informed decisions.

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    • Baseline Estimates of Absolute Mobility by Parent Income Percentile and Child Birth Cohort
      December 2016
      Source: Opportunity Insights, Harvard University
      Uploaded by: Misha Gusev
      Accessed On: 09 July, 2020
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      This table reports the probability that a child earns more than their parents at age 30 by parent income percentile for each child birth cohort in the range 1940-1984. All estimates are conditional on positive parent income. The table also reports the fraction of parents with zero income for each child birth cohort and the probability that a child in a given birth cohort earns more than their parents.   Codebook cohort - Child birth cohort base_absmob_pos_par[percentile] - Probability that a child at a given parent income percentile earns more than their parents par_frac0 - Fraction of parents with zero income cohort_mean - Mean probability for a child from a given birth cohort to earn more than their parents https://opportunityinsights.org/data/
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    • Opportunity Insights from Economic Tracker
      April 2024
      Source: Opportunity Insights, Harvard University
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 18 April, 2024
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      Index Period: January 4th - January 31st Indexing Type: Seasonally adjusted change since January 2020. Data is indexed in 2019 and 2020 as the change relative to the January index period. We then seasonally adjust by dividing year-over-year, which represents the difference between the change since January observed in 1 2020 compared to the change since January observed since 2019. We account for differences in the dates of federal holidays between 2019 and 2020 by shifting the 2019 reference data to align the holidays before performing the year-over-year division.
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