ECON 133Intergenerational Poverty in America
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of how poverty influences child development and, ultimately, their income and well-being in adulthood. Overview of poverty and intergenerational mobility in America, looking at historical trends and placing U.S. in international context. To understand why poverty is persistent across generations in U.S., study of economic model of skill formation in childhood. Consideration of existing research exploring how number of factors explain intergenerational persistence of poverty, including parental time, pollution, infant and child health, justice system, neighborhoods, stress, and preschool/education systems. Discussion of evidence on whether various public policies can improve mobility. Examination of both dominant and marginalized group experiences that supports an exploration of how various social identities intersect with poverty to shape access to opportunities and resources across generations.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 11, 101, 103. Enforced corequisite: course 133L.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 133
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 103Introduction to Econometrics
- ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
- MATH 170EIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability
- ECON 103LEconometrics Laboratory
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- MATH 170SIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 2: Statistics
- STATS 100BIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics
- ECON 133LIntergenerational Poverty in America Laboratory
4 direct requisites. Showing 34 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.