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Three proposals explicate the social origins/education transitions association.
Maximally maintained inequality (MMI) (Raftery and Hout 1993) claims the association declines
only at transitions high origin persons universally or nearly universally make. Relative risk
aversion (RRA) (Breen and Goldthorpe 1997) suggests broader inequality reduction is possible and
depends on changing costs and norms. Effectively maintained inequality (EMI) (Lucas 2001)
contends meaningful inequality reduction is elusive because qualitatively different types of
education maintain consequential inequality, even at universal transitions. Each proposal has
evidentiary support, yet because proposals highlight different association indices, most are
described informally, and their distinctiveness is disputed, comparative evaluation requires a
prior, clarifying, formal analysis. Formal analysis reveals that MMI is non-falsifiable. RRA and
EMI are falsifiable and are potentially but not necessarily complementary. Future research
should investigate whether and why RRA, EMI, both, or neither, apply. There are three errors in the paper (found as of October 16,
2009): 1)Page 463, line 7, the second ≡ needs a slash through it to signify "not
equals". 2)Page 472, the vertical scale of Figure 3 goes from 0 to .7 by .1, but it
should go from 0 to 7 by 1. 3)Page 491 reads "Examining EMI: tautology? Contradiction? Evaluative
feasibility?" The first "t" in "tautology" should be capitalized.