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Education and Social Mobility: Opportunity and Its Limits
Examine how education affects mobility, credentials, meritocracy, inequality, selection, and the distribution of desirable work.
Education can expand individual opportunity, but it cannot by itself make a highly unequal society broadly mobile.
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