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Educational Mobility Across Three Generations of American Women by Sarah Kroeger; Owen Thompson is a Economics, Econometrics and Finance article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Educational Mobility Across Three Generations of American Women about?
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of education in a three-generation sample of women from the US. The studied cohorts were born between the early 1910s and the early 1980s, a period of transformational increases in female educational attainment, making this an especially interesting context in which to study multigenerational inequality. We nd strong three-generation educational persistence, with the association between the education of grandmothers and their granddaughters approximately two-times stronger than would be expected under the type of Markovian transmission process that has been assumed in much of the existing two-generation mobility literature. To better understand these ndings we outline a simple theoretical transmission structure that is consistent with strong three-generation eects, assess various mechanisms through which grandparents may directly inuence the education of their grandchildren, and investigate the extent to which core demographic processes such as dierential fertility impact multigenerational educational persistence.
Who reads Educational Mobility Across Three Generations of American Women?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Economics, Econometrics and Finance.
- Author
- Sarah Kroeger; Owen Thompson
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)