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Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream at Harvard University Overview
Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream
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Join Harvard Professor Raj Chetty in this course to understand the history of socioeconomic mobility and how geography plays a role in access to opportunity.
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹169 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
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Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream
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- Earn a certificate upon completion
Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream at Harvard University Course details
Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream
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Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
- Explore the history of the American Dream-where children often grew up to financially outperform their parents-and why that dream has faded.
- Understand why upward mobility has geographically shifted significantly and what led to those changes.
- Study the characteristics of places with high upward mobility by looking at historical data and the price of opportunity.
- Compare economic mobility trends across the U.S. and other countries around the globe.
More about this course
- In Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream , you will explore these factors in detail in order to understand the historical characteristics of high-mobility groups and factors that impact growth, like geography and access to opportunity
- Using big data sets and data science, you will learn to compare trends across the U.S. and understand the causal effect of policies that can expand opportunities in specific neighborhoods
- By the end of this course, you will have a foundational understanding of how big data can be used to measure mobility and solve social problems
Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream at Harvard University Curriculum
Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream
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Economics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Economic Development, Public Leadership, Public Policy, Sociology
Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream at Harvard University Faculty details
Evaluating Upward Mobility: The Fading American Dream
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Raj Chetty
Designation : William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University, Director of Opportunity Insights
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