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How to Measure Economic Mobility in the United States
In the facebook data, we don't measure mobility directly. What i'd like to do is take a set of kids who grew up in low income families. They're now working as adults. You need to be something like age 30 to have a reliable measure of your income. If you look at people an thei'r twenties, some of them are in college, it's too early, basically. So if i want to look at a 30 year old now, they have to be born back in 19 90 or even before that,. And you're not going to be able to measure that within the facebook data directly. We use information from anonymized tax returns to measure economic mobility a