📣 Try out the NEW Gateway to Research and let us know what you think.

We're looking for users to test the new service during August and September and share their feedback. Express your interest by completing this short form.

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

No abstract provided

Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

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

ISBN: 978-0-87154-031-7