Multigenerational Social Mobility: A Demographic Approach.

ABSTRACT: Most social mobility studies take a two-generation perspective, in which intergenerational relationships are represented by the association between parents' and offspring's socioeconomic status. This approach, albeit widely adopted in the literature, has serious limitations when more than two generations of families are considered. In particular, it ignores the role of families' demographic behaviors in moderating mobility outcomes and the joint role of mobility and demography in shaping long-run family and population processes. This paper provides a demographic approach to the study of multigenerational social mobility, incorporating demographic mechanisms of births, deaths, and mating into statistical models of social mobility. Compared to previous mobility models for estimating the prob

SUBMITTER: Song X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8294650 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature