Practice question · True or false
Adjusted for purchasing power, the strongest single predictor of an individual’s income worldwide is their country of birth.
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- Compare the predictive power of place against effort and schooling.
- Where you were born constrains more than what you do.
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True
Why
Location beats education, effort, and even parental class as a global income predictor. Milanović calls it the "citizenship premium." It is stratification’s largest single fact, and the deepest reason migration pressure exists.
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