ECON 133
Intergenerational Poverty in America
Grades
3.93
Average grade awarded in ECON 133. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
96%
of the 564 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 564 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.88 to 3.97.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 231 · 41.0%
- A 252 · 44.7%
- A- 61 · 10.8%
- B+ 9 · 1.6%
- B 4 · 0.7%
- B- 4 · 0.7%
- C+ 1 · 0.2%
- C 1 · 0.2%
- C- 1 · 0.2%
- P 1 of 565
Percentages are of the 564 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLERAS-MUNEY, ADRIANA reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.93 | 564 | 5 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 11, 101, 103. Enforced corequisite: course 133L. 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.
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