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2018 - 2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECON 449 - American Economic Mobility Over Two Centuries


Spring (3) Prerequisite(s): ECON 303  and ECON 308   (College 400)

This course explores the evolution of economic inequality and mobility in the United States from the Civil War to modern times. We will evaluate different methods of measuring inequality and mobility and then use those measures to assess how major events and structural changes to the economy altered economic mobility for different groups. Particular attention will be given to how to econometrically identify causal relationships between these events and changes in mobility. The course will focus primarily on comparing differences in economic mobility over time across gender and across race. We will explore the impacts of such events as the Great Migration, the High School Movement, passage of the 19th Amendment, and school desegregation on inequality and mobility.