Status attainment and wealth in the United States and Germany

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 109-137

  Pfeffer, Fabian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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