Quarterly Journal of Economics study finds that growing up in Salt Lake City increases children's upward income mobility.
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren, "The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates," The Quarterly Journal of Economics 133, no. 3 (August 2018): 1197, 1201
Among the 50 largest C[ommuting] Z[one]s, Salt Lake City, UT, has the most positive forecasted causal effect for children in below-median income families. We predict that every additional year spent growing up in Salt Lake City will increase a child’s income by 0.17 percentiles (RMSE = 0.07) relative to an average CZ. Rescaling the estimates. . . .into dollar impacts, this estimate implies that growing up in Salt Lake City from birth (assuming 20 years of exposure) would increase children’s incomes at age 26 by 10.4% relative to growing up in the average CZ.
. . . .The predicted impact of moving from the worst CZ (Los Angeles) to the best CZ (Salt Lake City) is 13.7% for children in above-median income families, roughly half the corresponding range for children in below-median income families.