Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
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Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
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Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#2London is extremely walkable and doesn’t seem to have that great of a social mobility for its residents.
Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#3London is extremely walkable and doesn’t seem to have that great of a social mobility for its residents.
Do you have better support for this statement than what the authors of cited paper have?
You did, after all, dismiss a whole paper with a glib remark.
Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#4London is extremely walkable and doesn’t seem to have that great of a social mobility for its residents.
Citation needed. Feels like a deathtrap sometimes.
Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#5Seems spurious. Could be talented people move to cities with high earning potential—which happen to be walkable. Do the authors control for that?
Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#6London is extremely walkable and doesn’t seem to have that great of a social mobility for its residents.
Do you have better support for this statement than what the authors of cited paper have? You did, after all, dismiss a whole paper with a glib remark.
One example doesn’t strike me as a glib dismissal, particularly since this study was done in the United States.
Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#7Seems spurious. Could be talented people move to cities with high earning potential—which happen to be walkable. Do the authors control for that?
It's longitudinal tax data.
>We 1st identified the relationship between walkability and upward mobility using tax data from approximately 10 million Americans born between 1980 and 1982.
Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#8Blog post is a copy of the abstract of a $12 article. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Famp0000422
Nothing to see here.
Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#9I wonder how remote will change this.
Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have better support for this statement than what the authors of cited paper have? You did, after all, dismiss a whole paper with a glib remark.
One example doesn’t strike me as a glib dismissal, particularly since this study was done in the United States.
They don't give an example, they express their impression rather than providing contrary data.