My own sense is that in the United States, and also the United Kingdom, this
channel between parent and child economic status due to connections probably
works more strongly for top earners through college choice, and particularly
through college choice, and particularly through the select colleges. Anecdotal
evidence is also often used to suggest that access to unpaid internships, which
permit the development of on-the-job training and firm-specific human capital,
is also tilted toward children of the relatively well-to-do, whose families have
the resources to finance them.