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I'd be interested in the stats in the other direction - how low of a chance of someone born in the upper quintile ending up in the lower quintile. The u.s. seem
by comrade1 11y ago
I'd be interested in the stats in the other direction - how low of a chance of someone born in the upper quintile ending up in the lower quintile. The u.s. seems to be disproportionally high in mediocre people being at the top, being there through famil money.
Basically britain's upper class twits satirized by Monty Python.
- dlg 11y agoBrookings, a center-left think-tank, has a pretty good summary of a lot of stats about income-mobility http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2008/2/economic%20mobility%20sawhill/02_economic_mobility_sawhill_ch1.PDF http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2008... (Also, a shorter note from the center-right AEI https://www.aei.org/publication/tracking-the-same-households-over-time-shows-significant-income-mobility/ https://www.aei.org/publication/tracking-the-same-households...)