Top-income children receive about twice the educational resources of bottom-income children

Evidence

Taking account of the inequality in financial resources for each year in school and the inequality in years of schooling obtained, Jencks estimated that a child whose parents were in the top fifth of the income distribution receives roughly twice the educational resources in dollar terms as does a child whose parents are in the bottom fifth. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 436

Jencks estimated that a child whose parents were in the top fifth of the income distribution receives roughly twice the educational resources in dollar terms as does a child whose parents are in the bottom fifth. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 436

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to my existing note that parental socioeconomic background predicts a five-year schooling gap (ch12); this doubles it with a resources-in-dollars measure.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 436