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Opinion: How Talented Kids From Low-income Families Become America?s `Lost Einsteins?
21 November 2018
To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture. We found that a child's potential for future innovation seems to have as much to do with the circumstances of his or her family background as it does with his or her talent.