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Intergenerational mobility and interraical inequality:the return to family values

Year: 2007

Type: report

Abstract: This paper investigates two questions. First, what is the relative importance of the components of childhood family environment—parental values versus parental class status—for young adult economic outcomes? Second, are interracial differences in labor market outcomes fully explained by differences in family environment? We find that both family values and family class status affect intergenerational mobility and inter-racial inequality. Consideration of racial differences in parental values and class status alters but does not eliminate the impact of race on the labor market outcomes of young adults.

Source: Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Author: Patrick L. Mason

Language: English

Topic: Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Family Environment and Intergenerational Mobility

OpenAlex ID: W3121914910

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