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Mobility Chances

Mobility Chances is a theoretical construct in sociology that denotes the likelihood or probability that individuals or groups will experience upward, downward, or horizontal movement in social stratification over the life course or across generations, distinguished from related constructs by its focus on potentiality and opportunity rather than realized mobility outcomes.

187

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13.7K

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359

Authors

174

Institutions

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2017–2026

38

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Publications

187

Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline et al. · American Economic Review · 2014 · 796 citations

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The future mobility of the world population

Andreas Schäfer, David G. Victor · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice · 2000 · 663 citations

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Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez et al. · National Bureau of Economic Research · 2017 · 618 citations · Full text

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Social Resources and Mobility Outcomes: A Replication and Extension

Peter V. Marsden, Jeanne S. Hurlbert · Social Forces · 1988 · 485 citations

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Class, Mobility and Merit The Experience of Two British Birth Cohorts

Richard Breen · European Sociological Review · 2001 · 339 citations

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Authors

359

  1. JH
    John H. Goldthorpe

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 636 citations

    8

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  2. EB
    Erzsébet Bukodi

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 211 citations

    6

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  3. RC
    Raj Chetty

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    3 publications · 1.6K citations

    3

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  4. NT
    Nicholas Turner

    United States Department of the Treasury, United States

    3 publications · 1.6K citations

    3

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  5. PV
    Peter V. Marsden

    Harvard University Press, United States

    3 publications · 727 citations

    3

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Institutions

174

  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    682 citations

  2. University of Trento

    Trento, Italy

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    216 citations

  3. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    126 citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    317 citations

  5. University of Milano-Bicocca

    Milan, Italy

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    415 citations

  6. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    439 citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    880 citations

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Venues

  1. American Sociological Review

    ASR · 13 publications · 762 citations

    12

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  2. European Sociological Review

    11 publications · 997 citations

    11

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  3. Social Science Research

    7 publications · 611 citations

    7

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  4. Sociology

    6 publications · 313 citations

    6

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  5. Social Forces

    SF · 5 publications · 751 citations

    5

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