Analyses of Intergenerational Mobility: An Interdisciplinary Review

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 657, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 37-62

  Torche, Florencia ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class mobility; Equality of opportunity; Income mobility; Social inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919460118     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214547476     Document Type: Article

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