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Your birthplace determines your wealth
Published Tue, Jun 2, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Washington
LIFE is a lottery, and the most important part isn't how smart you are or even who your parents are. It's where you were born.
That, at least, is what economist Branko Milanovic, writing in the May issue of The Review of Economics and Statistics, found when he broke down how much people in different countries make at different income percentiles. That …
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