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Benjamin Goldman

Assistant Professor of Economics · Cornell University

Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Cornell, NBER Faculty Research Fellow and Research Principal at Opportunity Insights. Studies class and race disparities in the US, with attention to family structure; PhD Harvard 2024.

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Published Quarterly Journal of Economics Online 8 Jan 2026 Published Apr 2026
Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility

Raj Chetty · Will Dobbie · Benjamin Goldman · Sonya R Porter · Crystal S Yang

This paper documents sharp divergent trends in intergenerational economic mobility by race and class in the United States across the 1978 to 1992 birth cohorts, and investigates the causal mechanisms …

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