Persistence, privilege, and parenting : the comparative study of intergenerational mobility /

Americans like to believe that theirs is the land of opportunity, but the hard facts are that children born into poor families in the United States tend to stay poor and children born into wealthy families generally stay rich. Other countries have shown more success at lessening the effects of inequ...

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Other Authors: Smeeding, Timothy M., Jäntti, Markus, 1966-, Erikson, Robert, 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
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