Big Data for Big Social Issues

Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Panel: 1:00pm – 2:45pm

Prof. John Friedman, Brown University: “Income Inequality and Social Mobility: What Can We Learn from Big Data?” 3:00pm-5:00pm

Reception 5:00-6:00pm

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A defining feature of the American Dream is upward income mobility — the ideal that children have equal opportunities to succeed in life, regardless of the circumstances of their birth. Prof. Friedman will discuss his research using large administrative datasets to uncover where opportunity lacks in America, and what policymakers and civic leaders can do about it to revive the American Dream for future generations.