Walkable Cities lead to success
2019-10-29 17:31:48.453027+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Kids Raised in Walkable Cities Earn More Money As Adults
That’s the key finding from a new study published in the American Psychologist. The study, “The Socioecological Psychology of Upward Social Mobility,” by psychologists at Columbia University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, looks at the effect of growing up in a walkable community on the economic mobility of children. The walkability measure comes from Walk Score. The economic mobility measure is based on the detailed data developed by economist Raj Chetty and his research team. Their data cover more than 9 million Americans born between 1980 and 1982 and gauges the probability that children from households in the bottom fifth of the income distribution will reach the top fifth by age 30.
Not really news, we've known for quite a while that economic opportunity derives from urban lifestyles.