Modeling Equal Opportunity

We examine the themes of equal opportunity, intergenerational mobility, and inequality. We address the normative and definitional questions of selecting measures of mobility and summarize the current state of intergenerational mobility in the United States and abroad. We introduce a new microsimulat...

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Main Authors: Isabel V. Sawhill, Richard V. Reeves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2016-05-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.2.03