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American Opportunity Study (AOS)
American Opportunity Study (AOS)
The American Opportunity Study (AOS) is an initiative to use the Census Bureau’s linked data infrastructure to enable new research on social and economic mobility. The AOS supports work to develop and improve the linkage of historical and modern Census Bureau and administrative data with the goal of using these data to investigate intergenerational mobility. Infrastructure building to advance the AOS has been supported by the Census Bureau, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Stanford University, Harvard University, Brown University, and the University of Michigan.
Working Paper
Creating the American Opportunity Study
Discusses the American Opportunity Study, its background, goals, envisioned data infrastructure, and project progress.
Working Paper
Creating the American Opportunity Study
Discusses the American Opportunity Study (AOS), its goals for studying social mobility, the process of creating the AOS, and its progress.
Working Paper
American Opportunity Study: Technical Challenges
Discusses technical challenges in creating the American Opportunity Study (AOS), such as coverage, cost, identification of people and family relationships.
Working Paper
Challenges of Using Administrative Data Linkages to Evaluate Mobility
This article surveys available data and the issues surrounding the use of administrative records to vastly extend the study of intergenerational mobility.
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