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Working Paper
Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US
Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self-reported health status (SRH) during adulthood from the PSID. Our main finding is that there is substantially greater health mobility than income mobility in the US. A possible explanation is that social institutions and policies are more effective at disrupting intergenerational health transmission than income transmission. We further show that health and income ...
Journal Article
Putting Housing Program Delivery into High Gear
A look at how affordable housing advocates are working with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to reduce operating and transaction costs and elevate performance within existing federal housing programs.