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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

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London 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

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post #3

London 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

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Seems 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

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post #3

Earlier 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.
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