A multigenerational view of inequality

Demography

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-23

  Mare, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Lineages; Multigenerational; Social mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953678641     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0014-7     Document Type: Article

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