Univision:
Los ‘Einsteins perdidos’: cómo se desperdicia el potencial de los niños más brillantes de familias pobres y cómo solucionarlo / The 'lost Einsteins': how the potential of the brightest children of poor families is wasted and how to fix
11 February 2018
Article by by Xavier Jaravel, Raj Chetty, John Van Reenen and Alexander Bell
A new analysis shows how much the socioeconomic status of a student's family influences whether he becomes an inventor as he grows up. The key to diminishing the disadvantages suffered by the poorest children? Expose them to more inventors.
Related publications
‘Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation’, Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen, mimeo, December 2017
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/inventors_paper.pdf