Format
A data frame with 707 observations and 39 variables:
- state
State abbreviation
- cz
Commuting zone identifier
- s_1
Latitude (decimal degrees)
- s_2
Longitude (decimal degrees)
- am
Absolute upward mobility
- fracblack
Fraction black
- racseg
Racial segregation
- segpov25
Segregation of poverty
- fraccom15
Fraction commuting < 15 min
- hipc
Household income per capita
- gini
Gini coefficient
- incsh1
Income share top 1\ tsrTeacher-student ratio tspercTest score percentile hsdropHigh school dropout rate scindSocial capital index fracrelFraction religious crimerCrime rate fracsmFraction single mothers fracdivFraction divorced fracmarFraction married loctrLocal tax rate colpcCollege population share coltuiCollege tuition colgradCollege graduation rate manshareManufacturing share chimpChange in imports tlfprTotal labor force participation rate migirateMigration inflow rate migorateMigration outflow rate fracforFraction foreign-born
Chetty, R., Hendren, N., Kline, P., and Saez, E. (2014). "Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4), 1553-1623.Data sourced from the SPUR Stata package at https://github.com/pdavidboll/SPUR. chetty Data on intergenerational mobility and its correlates across US commuting zones, used in Chetty, Hendren, Kline, and Saez (2014). Adapted from the SPUR Stata package example data. datasets