Boys and mobility

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

The question

Do boys and girls raised in the same neighborhoods reach different incomes as adults, and where is the gap widest?

The data

• Opportunity AtlasYears: 1978-1983 birth cohorts (2018 release)

opportunity-atlas

The scope

Neighborhoods Each row of the data is a census tract, so results describe neighborhoods. They do not describe the people in them.

The chapter sits in Part III, The climb, in the volume Cradle and climb. Its unit of analysis is neighborhoods. See how the book treats evidence.