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Observed and Counterfactual Distributions of Adults across Family Income Quintiles
Source: March Current Population Survey, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, National Vital Statistics, and decennial Census data.
Note: Counterfactuals from intergenerational continuity models (see text for details). Left panel shows black adults only; right panel shows percent change between 1968 and 2008 in the distributional differences between black and white adults.
