Rising Inequality in Family Incomes and Children's Educational Outcomes

Greg J. Duncan; Richard J. Murnane

doi:10.7758/RSF.2016.2.2.06

Article Information

vol. 2 no. 2 142-158

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.2.06

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 1, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. This chapter draws from the introductory chapter in Whither Opportunity? and from our 2014 book. We thank the Russell Sage Foundation and the Spencer Foundation for supporting the research and allowing us to summarize the lessons from our books here. Direct correspondence to: Greg J. Duncan at gduncan@uci.edu, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, 2001 Education, Irvine, CA 92697; and Richard J. Murnane at richard_murnane@harvard.edu, Gutman Library, Rm. 406B, Harvard University, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Greg J. Duncan^a and
Richard J. Murnane^b

^aDistinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine
^bThompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education