Opportunity in America

VOLUME 16, NUMBER 2

Issue Editors: Isabel Sawhill and Sara McLanahan


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Chapter 1. Improving Children's Prospects: An Overview
Sara McLanahan and Isabel Sawhill, editors

Chapter 2. Intergenerational Social Mobility: The United States in Comparative Perspective
Michael Hout and Emily Beller

Chapter 3. Intergenerational Mobility for Women and Minorities in the United States
Melissa Kearney

Chapter 4. Making It in America: The Immigrant Experience
George Borjas

Chapter 5. Early Childhood Development
W. Steven Barnett and Clive Belfield

Chapter 6. Elementary and Secondary Education
Cecilia Rouse and Lisa Barrow

Chapter 7. Higher Education
Timothy Smeeding and Robert Haveman

Chapter 8. Children's Health
Anne Case and Christina Paxson

Chapter 9. Family Background and Success in the Labor Market
Melissa Kearney