Intergenerational Mobility: How Gender, Race, and Family Structure Affect Adult Outcomes

Authors

Jean Kimmel, Editor, Western Michigan University

Publication Date

2021

DOI

10.17848/9780880996808

Abstract

This volume presents a complex portrait of the interrelationships among parents’ marital status and education, child gender, and the nature and success of children’s transitions into adulthood. The first three chapters focus on differences in parents’ investments in their children, while the final three chapters focus directly on intergenerational income mobility.

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Contents

1. Introduction and Overview: Intergenerational Mobility in the Modern Era / Jean Kimmel

2. A Comparison of U.S. Parents’ Time with Children by Child Gender and Family Structure / Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel

3. Behavioral Insights, Parental Decision Making, and Investments in Children’s Development / Ariel Kalil and Susan Mayer

4. Gender Differences in (Some) Formative Inputs to Child Development / Michael Baker

5. Household Structure and Socioeconomic Mobility: The Role of Mothers / Sarah Kroeger

6. Race and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States / Bhashkar Mazumder

7. Accounting for Race Differences in How Family Structure Shapes the Transition into Adulthood / Paula Fomby

Note

The chapters in this volume are based on lectures from the fifty-sixth Werner Sichel Lecture Series in 2019–2020 at Western Michigan University.

ISBN

9780880996785 (pbk.) ; 9780880996808 (ebook)

Subject Areas

EDUCATION; LABOR MARKET ISSUES; Work and family balance