Dr. Rebecca Ryan’s Research Reveals a Link Between the American Dream and Opportunity Hoarding

September 17— Featured on the front page of the College of Arts and Science News Monday Memo is Dr. Rebecca Ryan’s research. Her collaboration with other researchers has found that while a belief in economic mobility is important to parents’ sense of optimism about their children’s futures, “a strong belief in upward mobility may also encourage higher-income parents to reinforce societal inequity through different forms of opportunity hoarding”. On campus, Dr. Rebecca Ryan’s Child Development & Social Policy Lab produces research focused “on understanding and strengthening families and educational settings as the key agents of change for young children.”

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