According to scholars, places with more connections between low and high-income folks have greater rates of upward mobility. They say these cross-class relationships are the reason why low-income folks are much more likely to climb the economic ladder.
Since undertaking this research project, Raj and his collaborators have been trying to figure out why the map looks like this. Why do kids in places like Silver Spring, Maryland, have a much better shot of rising out of poverty than kids in Little Rock, Arkansas?
You might not think of Facebook as the ideal measure of genuine friendships, but Raj and his team use it as a proxy to see the power of relationships formed in the real world. And they do a bunch of work cross-referencing and benchmarking this data with other sources, including national surveys.
The team finds that of these three measures, the only one strongly associated with upward mobility is economic connectedness. And it turns out it's a huge deal."Social interaction across class lines is a key factor that predicts upward mobility out of poverty," Raj says.When explaining why friendships with high-income folks are so critical for low-income folks to get richer, Raj pulled up a multicolored map of America.
But, Raj notes, these effects aren't necessarily separate. Growing up in a place with lots of connections between high-income and low-income folks likely influences low-income folks to go to college, which is one of the many reasons why living in a more economically connected place might be giving people a boost.While there seems to be something magical about economic connectedness, the problem is that many communities across America don't have much of it.
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