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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.

First Author: Smeeding, Timothy; Erikson, Robert; Jantti, Markus

Attributed to: An examination of the impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in late childhood and adolescence. funded by ESRC

Abstract

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility (2011)

ISBN: 978-0-87154-031-7