Family Background and Earnings Inequality among College Graduates.
Stratification researchers have reported that the relationship between family background and socio-economic outcomes drops to near zero for individuals who have a baccalaureate degree, leading one scholar to conclude that “This … provides a new answer to the old question about overcoming disadvantag...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 95; no. 4; pp. 1539 - 1577 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2017
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