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Record Nr.

UNINA9910674500003321

Titolo

Intergenerational mobility : how gender, race, and family structure affect adult outcomes / / Jean Kimmel, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kalamazoo, Michigan : , : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-88099-680-3

9780880996808

0880996803

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.5/13

Soggetti

Social mobility

Child development

Families - Economic aspects

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and overview: intergenerational mobility in the modern era / Jean Kimmel -- A comparison of U.S. Parents' time with children by child gender and family structure / Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel -- Behavioral insights, parental decision making, and investments in children's development / Ariel Kalil and Susan Mayer -- Gender differences in (some) formative inputs to child development / Michael Baker -- Household structure and socioeconomic mobility: the role of mothers / Sarah Kroeger -- Race and intergenerational mobility in the United States / Bhashkar Mazumde -- Accounting for race differences in how family structure shapes the transition into adulthood / Paula Fomby.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--