Oddly, the researchers’ Summary of Project Findings (http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/website/IGE/Executive%20Summary.pdf http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chet

Oddly, the researchers’ Summary of Project Findings (http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/website/IGE/Executive%20Summary.pdf http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/website/IGE/Executive%2...) says that on average, the religious correlation is the opposite: “Finally, some of the strongest predictors of upward mobility are correlates of social capital and family structure. For instance, high upward mobility areas tended to have higher fractions of religious individuals and fewer children raised by single parents.” I’m not sure how what data on religious people they are referring to. The Bible Belt is clearly deep red in the income mobility map.