Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out Of High School

dc.contributor.author	Kearney, Melissa S.	en
dc.contributor.author	Levine, Phillip B.	en
dc.date.accessed	2019-08-28	en
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-25T18:22:55Z	en
dc.date.available	2019-10-25T18:22:55Z	en
dc.date.issued	2016	en
dc.description.abstract	In this article, the authors point out that greater income gaps between those at the bottom and middle of the income distribution lead low-income boys to dropout of high school more often than their counterparts in higher inequality areas, suggesting that there is an important link between income inequality and reduced rates of upward mobility.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	The Brookings Institution	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/kearneytextspring16bpea.pdf	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/95107	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	The Brookings Institution	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	en
dc.subject	low-income students	en
dc.subject	social mobility	en
dc.subject	educational attainment	en
dc.subject	academic achievement	en
dc.title	Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out Of High School	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en
dc.type.dcmitype	StillImage	en

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