The American Opportunity Study: A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Outcomes, Evaluating Policy, and Advancing Basic Science

David B. Grusky; Michael Hout; Timothy M. Smeeding; C. Matthew Snipp

doi:10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.02

Article Information

vol. 5 no. 2 20-39

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online April 11, 2019.

© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Grusky, David B., Michael Hout, Timothy M. Smeeding, and C. Matthew Snipp. 2019. “The American Opportunity Study: A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Outcomes, Evaluating Policy, and Advancing Basic Science.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(2): 20–39. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.02. The authors thank all of those who have inspired and advanced the ideas, concepts, and moving parts of the American Opportunity Study. We also thank the reviewers for their careful reading and excellent comments, David Chancellor for graphing assistance, and the Carnegie Corporation, the National Research Council, and Stanford University for their support of the AOS. The authors alone assume responsibility for all errors of omission and commission. Direct correspondence to: Timothy M. Smeeding at smeeding@wisc.edu, Department of Economics, 3464 Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Dr., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

David B. Grusky^a,
Michael Hout^b,
Timothy M. Smeeding^c and
C. Matthew Snipp^d

^aBarbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University
^bProfessor of sociology at New York University
^cLee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison
^dBurnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University