A team of economic and business researchers from Southeast University, in China, University College London and Queen Mary University of London in the U.K. has found what they describe as the academic equivalent of a Great Gatsby Curve in science mentorships.
The Great Gatsby Curve, named after the main character in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, has come to be used to describe people who succeed economically because of the environment in which they were raised. Those who grow up with a wealthy mentor tend to become wealthy adults