What are some of the EOI’s most important findings?
• To date, the EOI project has achieved two significant milestones: 1) it has refined and quantified existing hypotheses about economic opportunity and 2) it has introduced new dynamics and drivers that were rarely included in debates before. Among its findings: • Education is the most important driver in economic opportunity in the United States, making up one third of the total drivers that impact economic opportunity. • Health is the second most important drivers in economic opportunity, making up almost one-fourth of the total drivers that impact economic opportunity. • If the African American infant mortality rate were the same as that for Asian Americans, African Americans would improve their health outcomes by 13%. • 1/3 of the net health improvement over the past 27 years has been due to lower smoking rates. • More educated individuals are healthier and live longer, and even after controlling for other factors, educational attainment drives almost one-third of the health outcom
