Vital City: Does When We're Born Make Us Who We Are?

Many people believe that individual character determines outcomes. But new research challenges this idea. In a three-decade study of over 1,000 Chicago children, sociologist and Vital City contributor Robert J. Sampson finds that the era into which you're born matters as much as who your parents are. Children born a decade apart—with identical backgrounds and neighborhoods—experience dramatically different life trajectories. 

Join Vital City, NYU Wagner and the Russell Sage Foundation for a conversation between New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and Robert Sampson about his new book,

Doors open and drinks at 5:00 PM. Event starts at 5:45 PM.

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