The puzzling decline of polarization of opportunity in the US

Brunori, Paolo ORCID: 0000-0002-1624-905X, Jordá, Vanesa and Salas Rojo, Pedro ORCID: 0000-0002-8763-8909 (2025) The puzzling decline of polarization of opportunity in the US. LSE Inequalities (01 Jul 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

A society where opportunities are highly polarized is one where individuals are clustered around some factor outside of their choosing – like race or place of birth – with each cluster having wildly different life prospects. Paolo Brunori, Vanesa Jordá and Pedro Salas-Rojo introduce the concept and chart the surprising decline of polarization of opportunity in the US in recent decades.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	International Inequalities Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2025 13:03
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2025 00:48
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129212

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