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Brad Hershbein: A College Degree Is Worth (Disproportionately) Less If You Are Raised Poor
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Bob Barbera, Jon Faust, and Jonathan Wright: Improving Conventional Unconventional Policy
Gene Grossman et al. : Schooling and Balanced Growth
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History: The Habakkuk Hypothesis
Wikipedia: Technological Unemployment
Brad Stone rt al.: The Most Important Apple Executive You’ve Never Heard Of

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon