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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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2019, 5 (2) 20-39; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.02
David B. Grusky
aBarbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University
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Michael Hout
bProfessor of sociology at New York University
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Timothy M. Smeeding
cLee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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C. Matthew Snipp
dBurnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: 5 (2)
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David B. Grusky, Michael Hout, Timothy M. Smeeding, C. Matthew Snipp
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Mar 2019, 5 (2) 20-39; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Mar 2019, 5 (2) 20-39; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.02
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    • THE PAYOFF TO ANALYZING PROGRAMS AND POLICIES WITH BIG PUBLIC DATA
    • A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY STUDY
    • THE STRUCTURE OF THE AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY STUDY
    • BENEFITS OF THE AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY STUDY
    • THE AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY STUDY AND THE COMMISSION ON EVIDENCE-BASED Policymaking
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