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Professor Raj Chetty, an economist at Harvard University, and his many col- laboratorive studied upward mobility in the United States. The map below (Figure 1) depicts the geography of upward mobility in the United States. Specifically, it shows the average income in adulthood of a child whose parents are in the 25th percentile of the in- come distribution, in different commuting zones in the United States. (To read more, visit www.opportunityinsights.org) In his work, Chetty is arguing that there is a causal effect of place. That is, where a child grows up has a causal effect on their earnings in adulthood.