Daily Archives: June 14, 2015

David Leonhardt Strikes Again

By June Carbone
Robina Chair of Law, Science and Technology
University of Minnesota Law School

David Leonhardt strikes again. As he now seems to do with some regularity, he takes a complex body of work and reduces it to a soundbite, eliminating the complexity and uncertainty that underlies the research.   His soundbite this time links two parent families to upward mobility, and notes that two different dynamics produce two parent families: high income and religion. He then replicates maps that purport to show these linkages.

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