Closing Keynote: Lucky You
summary
Claims that luck is hackable via four behaviors from Richard Wiseman, backed by datasets and local maps: BLS extraction of 2.3M programming jobs with a median wage rounded to ~$93k, gender and racial representation skewed in those jobs, Raj Chetty’s Opportunity Atlas and FHA redlining maps showing neighborhood fate, startling outcomes like chance to rise from bottom to top ~7.5% and nearby LA tracts with incarceration 44% vs 6.2%, and policy experiments moving families that estimate moving a child across town +$206k lifetime earnings.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:29The Luck Factor
- 7:47Making Your Own Luck
- 13:18Diversity
- 14:12Income
- 15:21Data
- 16:46Demographics
- 17:17The Opportunity Atlas
- 18:40Census Tracts
- 26:36Randolph Drive
- 31:34History of Housing
- 34:43Federal Programs
- 39:53Segregation
- 43:18Income and Demographics
- 44:53Sandis House
- 48:56Neoliberalism
- 49:11Unbound
- 50:52Public Education
- 52:23Minimum Wage
- 53:01Health Care
- 53:52Student Debt
- 55:04The American Dream
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