The Effects of the Great Depression on Children's Intergenerational Mobility

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Title: The Effects of the Great Depression on Children's Intergenerational Mobility
Language: English
Authors: Martha J. Bailey (ORCID 0000-0002-7692-6040), Peter Z. Lin (ORCID 0000-0003-4076-127X), A. R. Shariq Mohamm (ORCID 0009-0002-2342-719X), Alexa Prettyman (ORCID 0000-0003-0498-3561)
Source: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 2024 10(1):32-56.
Availability: Russell Sage Foundation. 112 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065. Tel: 212-750-6000; e-mail: journal@rsage.org; Web site: www.rsfjournal.org/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 25
Publication Date: 2024
Sponsoring Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA)
National Institute on Aging (NIA) (DHHS/NIH)
Contract Number: 1539228
R21AG05691201
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Trauma, Economic Change, Economic Impact, Occupational Mobility, Educational Mobility, Gender Differences, Early Experience, Child Development, Growth Models, Self Actualization, Family Influence
Geographic Terms: Ohio, North Carolina
ISSN: 2377-8253
2377-8261
Abstract: This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century. Using newly linked census and vital records from the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-database, we examine the occupational and educational mobility of more than 265,000 sons and daughters born in Ohio and North Carolina. We find that the deepest and most protracted downturn in U.S. history had limited effects on sons' intergenerational mobility but reduced daughters' intergenerational mobility.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1438487
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century. Using newly linked census and vital records from the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-database, we examine the occupational and educational mobility of more than 265,000 sons and daughters born in Ohio and North Carolina. We find that the deepest and most protracted downturn in U.S. history had limited effects on sons' intergenerational mobility but reduced daughters' intergenerational mobility.
ISSN:2377-8253
2377-8261