Edward Conard

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Brookings Study Indicates Education and Parents’ Marital Status Have Large Impact on Mobility

Brookings recently published a they-owe-the-public-better report on income inequality. One of the report’s headline conclusions shows, without any qualification, that growing up African American and poor (bottom quintile of earnings) is worse, from an expected earnings perspective, than growing up white and poor. See the chart below.   While that may be true, a fairer way to measure whether America treats races differently is to factor out traits they have in ... Read More


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