It's a struggle to leave behind the wealth or poverty of our birthplace | Torsten Bell

Where you are born matters a lot.There's the accent, of course, but I mean in rather less superficial ways.It's the breadth of those impacts that stands out in a new study from London School of Economics researchers, which shows how the economic circumstances of where and when we were born shape far more than our economic outcomes moulding everything from our cultural outlooks to voting patterns.

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