Waves I, IV, and V - The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility Data User Guide

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Hargrove, Taylor
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8759-1944
- Affiliation: Carolina Population Center
Gaydosh, Lauren
Dennis, Alexis

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The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility, compiled by Opportunity Insights, served as the source data used in the construction of this National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data file. This file enhances the existing Add Health contextual database through the addition of measures essential to understanding the determinants and sequelae of socioeconomic mobility. Specifically, it aims to characterize the socioeconomic mobility of Add Health participants at Wave I, IV, and V. Though the included variables report the mobility of people born from 1980 to 1991 at the U.S. tract- and county-levels and, therefore, remain constant across the waves of Add Health, the locations inhabited by respondents typically vary from wave to wave. In other words, these data provide measures of the opportunities for socioeconomic mobility for similarly aged people residing in the same tract or county as the Add Health respondent at a given wave. The timing of the mobility measures, however, remains invariant across waves.

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