CNN's John Sutter looked at the relationship between community cohesion and economic mobility. He found that whether or not a community is strong, it doesn't make much of a difference to how far you move up the ladder. Public engagement was also an important factor in predicting social mobility. The researchers will return to this topic in part two next week.
If you're a child born into a poor family in the United States, what are the most important factors in your life that will influence whether or not you're able to rise out of poverty?
To answer that question, we're joined again by Matthew Jackson, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
This is part one of a two-part series, and in this episode, Matthew is going to introduce us to a study he was involved in that looked at the data of 21 billion friendships in the US that asked the question: what is it really that allows a child to get ahead?
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