Why Poorer Students Earn Less (Even With the Same Degree) (opens in new tab)

I recently saw where Anna Stansbury, an assistant professor at MIT, explains that people who grew up in poverty end up earning less than their more affluent peers, even when they attended the same university: We know that socio-economic background matters for how well someone does in school, whether they get the chance to go to university, what kind of university they go to, what kind of degree and grade they get. I think there's often an assumption that these effects of socio-economic backgr...