Selected by Choiceas an Outstanding Academic Book of 1992. This major study addresses the important issue of widening inequality both between generations and among families within the younger generation. The combination of slowing income and growing wealth has hit young families with no college education harder than families with at least some college education, and black families harder than white families--trends that are projected to continue.
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Easterlin et al. (1991) studied this question.