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Direct linkReber, Sarah; Sinclair, Chenoah – Brookings Institution, 2020
Inequality in the United States has been rising in recent decades, while intergenerational mobility remains low. This means that absolute mobility--the extent to which children are economically better off than their parents--is declining, and intergenerational inequality is increasingly entrenched. A long literature suggests large returns to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Mobility, College Role, Low Income Students
