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Evidence of "class gap?": PhDs born to parents with graduate degrees tend to earn more in academia than 1st Gen PhDs


Unlike gender or race, class background is rarely a focus of research on career progression, or of DEI efforts in elite occupations. Should it be? In this paper, we document a large class gap in career progression in one occupation—U.S.

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