Lessons for Americans from Denmark about inequality and social mobility
研究发现，尽管丹麦福利政策慷慨，家庭背景对孩子的影响与美国相当，优势家庭更能利用福利项目，社区隔离效应显著，丹麦式福利难以消除这些力量。
Many progressive American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family influence on important child outcomes in Denmark is about as strong as it is in the United States. More advantaged families are better able to access, utilize, and influence universally available programs. Purposive sorting by levels of family advantage create neighborhood effects. Powerful forces not easily mitigated by Danish-style welfare state programs operate in both countries.