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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understanding the mechanisms behind intergenerational persistence : a comparison of the United States and Great Britain / Jo Blanden [and others]
- Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada / Miles Corak, Lori J. Curtis, and Shelley Phipps
- Status attainment and wealth in the United States and Germany / Fabian T. Pfeffer
- Occupations and social mobility : gradational, big-class, and micro-class reproduction in comparative perspective / Jan O. Jonsson [and others]
- Income-related gaps in school readiness in the United States and the United Kingdom / Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook
- Economic deprivation in early childhood and adult attainment : comparative evidence from Norwegian Registry data and U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics / Greg J. Duncan [and others]
- Causal effects of parents' education on children's education / John Ermisch and Chiara Pronzato
- Children's cognitive ability and parents' education : distinguishing the impact of mothers and fathers / John Jerrim and John Micklewright
- Unequal giving : monetary gifts to children across countries and over time / Julie M. Zissimopoulos and James P. Smith
- The role of social institutions in intergenerational mobility / Brian Nolan [and others].