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

• TeilnehmendeR: Kimmel, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Kalamazoo, Michigan : : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,, 2021.; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) :; illustrations

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

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.