Deprivation and mobility

Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.

The question

Does present-day deprivation or childhood mobility track the vote once race is held constant?

The data

• Precinct votes on census geographiesYears: 2016 and 2020 (contiguous United States only)
• Area Deprivation IndexYears: Vintage as distributed with the tract and ZCTA atlas files.
• Opportunity AtlasYears: Birth cohorts and outcome years as defined by Chetty and others (2018).
• Cooperative Election StudyYears: 2006-2024 (every year; self-reported turnout is available in the 10 even years)

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The scope

Places Each row of the data is a place such as a county or a neighborhood, so results describe places. They do not describe the people in them.

The chapter sits in Part XIII, Hardship, health and the vote, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.