#  Christopher Jencks 

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Emeritus

 

 

 



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*Research interests*: Changes in family structure over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited, and the effects of welfare reform.



 

 

 





 

 

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