Table 1.
Distribution of Adult Outcomes (Income Quintile as an Adult) for Children Born into Bottom Quintile
| Percent in Each Adult Income Quintile*: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bottom | Next | Middle | Top Two | |
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| ||||
| Characteristics | 20 | 20 | 20 | 40 |
| Race | ||||
| Black | 51 | 27 | 12 | 10 |
| (White) | (23) | (19) | (23) | (35) |
| Family status of mother | ||||
| Never-married | 50 | 24 | 13 | 14 |
| Discontinuously married | 32 | 24 | 20 | 24 |
| (Continuously married) | (17) | (23) | (20) | (40) |
| Educational status of parent | ||||
| Less than high school | 54 | 26 | 13 | 6 |
| High school degree and some college | 30 | 24 | 18 | 26 |
| (College graduate) | (16) | (17) | (26) | (41) |
Source: Author’s calculations based on the Brookings Institution Social Genome Model.
*
Each row adds to 100 percent (except for rounding); under equal opportunity a full 20 percent of each group would be in each quintile.