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Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood
This article uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to reveal that racial differences in childhood poverty are more consequential than differential attainment of education, employment, and family formation benchmarks in shaping racial differences in young adult poverty.