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Modeling Equal Opportunity

Isabel V. Sawhill, Richard V. Reeves
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2016, 2 (2) 60-97; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.2.03
Isabel V. Sawhill
aSenior fellows in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 20036
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Richard V. Reeves
aSenior fellows in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 20036
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    American Children Whose Family Income Exceeds Parents’ Family income

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    Social Mobility Matrix, United States Overall

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    Earnings Decile of Sons Born to Top-Decile Fathers

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    Earnings Decile of Sons born to Bottom-Decile Fathers

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    Intergenerational Mobility Estimates

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    Intergenerational Income Elasticities

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    Stages of the Social Genome Model

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    Success at Each Life Stage, Circumstances at Birth

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    Probability of Being On or Off Track

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    Success at Each Life Stage, Income at Birth

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    Gap in White-Black Success Rate

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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