On 12 Apr 2008, hiba346@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>> Blacks Trail in Growth of Income
>>
>> Study Finds Parents' Gains
>> May Not Protect Children
>> As Whites Seem to Benefit
>>
>> Blacks born into the middle class in the late 1960s
>> are far more likely than whites to earn less than
>> their parents, a new study of economic mobility has
>> found.
>> * * * when the study examined families
>> by race and their rank by income, they found stark
>> differences between black and white families.
>>
>> Children of black parents earning in the middle 20%
>> of all families in the late 1960s had a 69% chance
>> of earning less than their parents, the study found.
>> For white children, that chance was just 32%.
>> * * *
>> The re****t is part of a continuing examination of
>> economic mobility conducted under the auspices of
>> the Pew Charitable Trusts, with contributions
>> from Brookings, the American Enterprise Institute,
>> the Heritage Foundation and the Urban Institute.
>>
>> The study used data from the Panel Study of Income
>> Dynamics, run by academics with federal funding, which
>> has been following several thousand sets of parents
>> and children since the 1960s.
>> * * *
>> "Black children and white children do not have equal
>> chances of moving up the income ladder," Ms. Isaacs
>> writes. [etc., ETC., Etc]
>
>
> Interesting.. I wonder how the study was conducted.
> Do we have information on that?
The full text of the study and related others, which include a
detailed list of contributors, citations to sources of data, related
explanations of methodology, etc., etc. can be read at and/or readily
downloaded at the Brookings Institution web site -
http://www.brookings.edu
http://www.brookings.edu/topics/economic-mobility.aspx
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