Social mobility
Social mobility is important for a robust, attractive, and sustainable community. Through research, I realized that it is not only the outcome that individuals, families or groups move up or down the social ladder across the span of generations but also a social process influenced by the built environment and public policy.
Provision of public goods and intergenerational occupational mobility: Empirical evidence from China
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Access to public goods in local communities is beneficial for increasing intergenerational occupational mobility
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Equitable distribution mechanism of public goods
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Enlarging coverage of public-goods beneficiaries at micro (household/neighborhood) level rather than smoothing regional gap or rural-urban gap in terms of the total amount of public goods provision at the macro level.
Bicycle-friendly community and social mobility in American cities
Drawing attention to the linkage between transport planning and social equity, we find:
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Children living in a bicycle-friendly community had higher social mobility when they became adult
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All class benefit, lower-income family benefit more
