Introduction

Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-25

  Smeeding, Timothy M ^a   Erikson, Robert ^b   Jäntti, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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