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Three Essays On Variation In Intergenerational Mobility And Incarceration In The United States, Vikash Dangal
Three Essays On Variation In Intergenerational Mobility And Incarceration In The United States, Vikash Dangal
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The U.S. is often called the “land of opportunity” but there are substantial disparities in the opportunity and life outcomes of children depending on where they grow up. The structural factors that shape future outcomes of children can be traced to their childhood environment. This dissertation builds upon the existing literature on childhood environment and future outcomes of children and presents three essays on the variation in intergenerational income mobility and incarceration in the US.
In the first essay in chapter 2, I employ spatial regime analysis to study how the factors affecting absolute upward mobility vary due to local …