{"id":20477,"date":"2010-02-18T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20477"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:07:09","slug":"comparing-socioeconomic-mobility-across-oecd-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/18\/comparing-socioeconomic-mobility-across-oecd-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Socioeconomic Mobility Across OECD Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katrin sent us a great figure comparing the rate of socioeconomic mobility across several OECD nations.\u00a0 Using educational attainment and income as measures, the value (between zero and one) indicates how strongly parental socioeconomic status predicts a child’s socioeconomic status (a 1 is a perfect correlation and a zero would be no correlation).<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/a>The figure shows that Great Britain, the U.S., and Italy have a near 50% correlation rate.\u00a0 So, in these countries, parents status predicts about 50% of the variance in children’s outcomes.\u00a0 In contrast, Denmark, Australia, Norway, Finland, and Canada have much lower correlations.\u00a0 People born in the countries on the left of this distribution, then, have higher socioeconomic mobility than people born in the countries on the right.\u00a0 Merit, presumably, plays a greater role in your educational and class attainment in these cases.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0 The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katrin sent us a great figure comparing the rate of socioeconomic mobility across several OECD nations.\u00a0 Using educational attainment and income as measures, the value (between zero and one) indicates how strongly parental socioeconomic status predicts a child’s socioeconomic status (a 1 is a perfect correlation and a zero would be no correlation). The figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,29,36,34,1765,1811,1770,2055,2026,1776,1777,1819,1791,1802,1804,3920],"class_list":["post-20477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-education","tag-nation-australia","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-denmark","tag-nation-finland","tag-nation-france","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-italy","tag-nation-norway","tag-nation-spain","tag-nation-sweden","tag-nation-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20477"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60456,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20477\/revisions\/60456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}