Differential fertility, intergenerational educational mobility, and racial inequality

Article Abstract:

The trend in average educational achievement in the US has not been greatly affected by the higher fertility rates among poorly educated women, with the effect of differential fertility virtually offset by the high rates of intergenerational educational mobility. Educational inequality between blacks and whites has not been greatly impacted by the historically higher fertility rates for black women than white women. A negative correlation between fertility and education in only demonstrated by white women. A population growth model was developing using data on black and white women from 1925 to 1995.

Demographic aspects, Fertility, Human, Human fertility, Intelligence (Psychology), Educational evaluation, Educational assessment, Intelligence levels

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Recent trends in the inheritance of poverty and family structure

Article Abstract:

The trends in the interdependence of poverty and family structure from one generation to the next, focusing specifically on mothers and daughters, are investigated. The results have shown that the intergenerational associations between poverty and family structure are strong, but operate through largely independent pathways and despite important changes in the distributions of poverty and family structure, there is no evidence of change in the processes of intergenerational inheritance over time.

United States, Analysis, Social mobility, Cohort analysis, Inheritance and succession, Intergenerational transmission

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal measurements of neighborhood experience and their effects on children

Article Abstract:

A study to investigate the role residential mobility and neighborhood change play in the overall socioeconomic variation in children's neighborhoods is conducted. Results concluded that residential mobility plays a non-trivial role over the period of childhood in determining children's exposure to neighborhoods of different economic types.

California, Public affairs, Children, Social aspects, Influence, Residential mobility

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