Americans have long imagined our nation to be a land of equal opportunity, where anyone can succeed with talent and hard work. Unfortunately, economic mobility is a scarce commodity today, and a child ...
In recent years, there has been an explosion of novel and sobering research on intergenerational mobility and equality. We have learned that a child born in 1986 to parents whose income was in the ...
Family conditions -- specifically, how similar one's social status and background is to one's parents' status -- may play a bigger role in determining how easily an individual can shift into a ...