Over at Equitable Growth. From last March: The brilliant ...

Over at Equitable Growth. From last March: The brilliant Bhash Mazumder in conversation with Liz Hipple. He is right in his stress on siblings as an excellent test strip for measuring and understanding inequality in one easy-to-calculate number: Liz Hipple: In Conversation with Bhash Mazumder: "The sibling approach... boils everything down into one number by saying, what are all of the things that two siblings shared growing up? How much does that determine their overall outcomes?... That���s an important measure that we haven���t studied a lot. In the United States, there has been some research on sibling correlations, which I���ve contributed to a little bit, that suggests there���s much less intergenerational mobility in U.S. society than in other countries.... There is something about the nature of our society causing family background characteristics to strongly influence children���s long-run outcomes, thereby reinforcing inequalities...

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