Practice question · Fill in the blanks
Complete the Great Gatsby curve.
Across countries, higher income ______ is associated with lower intergenerational ______.
Word bank: inequality · mobility · taxation · population
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- The claim links a snapshot measure to a movement measure.
- Wider gaps between rungs make climbing harder.
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Across countries, higher income inequality is associated with lower intergenerational mobility.
Why
Where the rungs sit far apart, climbing between them gets harder: inequality today predicts stickiness tomorrow.
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