The increase in economic disparities over the past 30 years has prompted extensive
research on the causes and consequences of inequality both in the United States and, more …

Prompted by new data and a renewed concern about equality of opportunity, the study of
intergenerational mobility has flourished in Latin America in the past decade. Although …

My focus is on the degree to which increasing inequality in the high-income countries,
particularly in the United States, is likely to limit economic mobility for the next generation of …

It is widely assumed that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities
abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. Leslie McCall contends that such …

Economic inequality has been on the rise in the United States since the 1980s and by some
measures stands at levels not seen since before the Great Depression. Although the …

In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively
correlated with their parents' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio …

Эта книга вышла в свет, когда в мире поставлены под сомнение доминировавшие в
конце ХХ в. иллюзии об отмирании классов, о торжестве общества всеобщего …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic
of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data …

To assess heterogeneity in the influence of genetic variation on educational attainment
across environmental contexts, we present a meta-analysis of heritability estimates in fifteen …

This paper estimates 50-year trends in the intergenerational persistence of educational
attainment for a sample of 42 nations around the globe. Large regional differences in …