Social trends conceal inequalities in adult height
Social mobility and changes in social structure do not inflate
inequalities in height. Power and colleagues (page 131) investigated adult height to establish whether inequalities develop because of
changes in social structure and social mobility linked to height. They
found that social forces obscured an effect of childhood socioeconomic
circumstances. This means that inequalities would have been greater in
the absence of the general trend of upward social mobility between
generations and the tendency for taller people to be upwardly mobile.
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