Article
Family Studies
William Schneider, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Summary: This study examines whether living in higher intergenerational mobility counties is associated with less harsh parenting and lower risk of child maltreatment for low-income families. The results suggest that higher intergenerational mobility is associated with decreased risk of harsh parenting and child maltreatment for low-income children. This indicates that living in economically mobile geographies can reduce the risk of inappropriate parenting for low-income children.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2022)
Article
Economics
Javier Cortes Orihuela, Juan D. Diaz, Pablo Gutierrez Cubillos, Alexis Montecinos, Pablo A. Troncoso, Gabriel Villarroel
Summary: This study estimates spatially disaggregated measures of intergenerational mobility in Chile using administrative data, which links children's and their parents' earnings. The study finds significant heterogeneity in upward mobility, with mining and agricultural regions showing higher and lower mobility, respectively. This corroborates previous findings by Connolly et al. in 2019, but adds the distinction that Chile is a unitary state, suggesting factors other than institutional differences shape mobility.
Article
Demography
Zachary Parolin, Jordan Matsudaira, Jane Waldfogel, Christopher Wimer
Summary: Young adults in the United States, especially young Black adults, have higher poverty rates compared to other age groups. This study finds that childhood poverty exposure has a greater impact on racial disparities in young adult poverty than differences in education, employment, and family formation benchmarks.
Article
Economics
Alberto Alesina, Sebastian Hohmann, Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou
Summary: The study reveals wide heterogeneity in intergenerational mobility in educational attainment across different countries and regions in Africa, with the literacy of the older generation closely linked to individual mobility, and regional disparities in mobility influenced by historical and geographical factors.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Milan van den Heuvel, Jan Ryckebusch, Koen Schoors, Tarik Roukny
Summary: This article examines the relationship between financial wealth and early income growth. The study finds that individuals with higher financial wealth experience higher income growth in the early stages of their careers. While social capital and innate abilities play limited roles, the results suggest that individuals with higher disposable wealth are more likely to find jobs that match their human capital, leading to higher performance and consequent income growth. Therefore, implementing policies that address individuals' capacity to navigate frictions in the first job market could significantly promote economic mobility.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Giannis Lois, Katerina Petkanopoulou
Summary: The low demand for redistribution despite growing economic inequality can be explained by increased optimism about upward mobility and low political efficacy of disadvantaged individuals. This study suggests that political inequality plays a prominent role in perpetuating economic inequality.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Jakob de Haan, Regina Pleninger, Jan-Egbert Sturm
Summary: Financial development may impact poverty indirectly through income inequality and economic growth, with different effects observed when using different poverty lines. Financial instability does not seem to affect poverty directly, and the overall impact of financial development on poverty can be positive or negative depending on the strength of the indirect effects. These results are consistent across various robustness checks.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Economics
Yonghong An, Le Wang, Ruli Xiao
Summary: This article provides a framework for estimating intergenerational mobility elasticities that allows for heterogeneity. Applying the framework to data, the study finds substantial heterogeneity in intergenerational mobility elasticities and confirms a U-shape pattern in relation to parental income.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMIC STATISTICS
(2022)
Article
Family Studies
Yunju Nam
Summary: This study finds that parental financial assistance for college plays a significant role in explaining racial wealth disparity, and reducing the racial gap significantly if Black people receive assistance at the same rate as their white counterparts. Parental assistance for college explains racial wealth disparity independently from children's educational attainment and family income, serving as an important mechanism in maintaining wealth disparity between Black and white generations.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Economics
Marcelo Delajara, Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, Roberto Velez-Grajales
Summary: The study on intergenerational social mobility in Mexico reveals a clear north-south gradient, with children of poor parents in the northern regions experiencing greater upward mobility compared to those in the central and southern regions.
Article
Economics
Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Isabel Skak Olufsen
Summary: This paper decomposes inequality in subjective well-being into inequality due to socioeconomic background and meritocratic inequality due to differences in individual merits. The study measures the meritocratic share of well-being and finds that there are already systematic differences in well-being among young adults. As people grow older, the role of merits in well-being inequality increases and exceeds the role of merits in income inequality.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Ke Meng, Shouhao Li
Summary: Evidence shows that economic advantages and disadvantages tend to be hereditary, creating a positive association between income inequality and intergenerational immobility. The Conservative welfare regime is the strongest in maintaining the influence of parental backgrounds on children's wealth, which is crucial in determining children's socio-economic status. These findings, combined with the fact that the conservative welfare regime generates a medium-high level of economic inequality, explain why income inequality is positively and concavely correlated with intergenerational immobility.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Economics
Ning Xu, Changan Li
Summary: Using China Family Panel Studies data, this paper analyzes intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism through various statistical models. The results suggest that the offspring of relatively poor parents have a higher likelihood of exiting relative poverty compared to those with not relatively poor parents. The impact of parents' income on offspring is mainly mediated through their work rather than education, possibly due to early engagement in manual labor hindering educational attainment. Additionally, women face disadvantages in intergenerational mobility. Improving education affordability, employment quality, and focusing on female groups would enhance intergenerational mobility in rural China.
APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Thermodynamics
Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Kanchan Kumar Sen, Bipasha Singha, Shahadat Hosan, Andrew J. Chapman, Bidyut Baran Saha
Summary: This study examines the impact of energy poverty on early childhood development in energy-poor countries using a multidimensional approach and mediation analysis. The findings suggest that energy poverty hampers childhood development through its effects on living standards and child health.
Article
Economics
Borja Gambau, Juan C. Palomino, Juan G. Rodriguez, Raquel Sebastian
Summary: The study shows that without compensating policies, wage inequality and poverty would increase in the US for all social groups and states after 2 months of lockdown and 10 months of partial functioning. The restrictions imposed to curb the pandemic lead to a double process of divergence within and between social groups, with education level differences impacting wage poverty risk more than differences by race or gender.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Louis Donnelly, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Irwin Garfinkel, Brandon G. Wagner, Wade C. Jacobsen, Sarah Gold, Lauren Gaydosh
Article
Pediatrics
Sarah James, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Colter Mitchell, Lisa Schneper, Brandon Wagner, Daniel A. Notterman
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
(2017)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, Pelin Batur, Megan McNamara, Justine Wu, Michael B. Rothberg
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Brandon G. Wagner, Kelly Cleland, Pelin Batur, Justine Wu, Michael B. Rothberg
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2019)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Jerome R. Koch, Brandon G. Wagner, Alden E. Roberts
Summary: The study found that studying at a Christian school has the strongest negative association with deviant behavior, while religiosity is relatively less important, and Christian fundamentalist beliefs have a weak correlation with deviant behavior. The results support the concept of Moral Communities that strongly discourage deviant behavior among respondents in an explicitly religious academic environment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Family Studies
Kate H. Choi, Brandon G. Wagner
Summary: The study suggests that GED degree is not socially equivalent to a traditional high school diploma, and the marital sorting patterns of GED recipients support this finding, particularly among racial/ethnic minorities.
JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
(2023)
Article
Family Studies
Sarah Gold, Brandon Wagner
Summary: Acute healthcare utilization, such as emergency room visits or hospitalizations, is associated with an increased risk of housing hardships for families, particularly when children utilize acute care services. However, perceived social support may help mitigate this impact.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Gerontology
Ashton M. Verdery, Lauren Newmyer, Brandon Wagner, Rachel Margolis
Summary: This study investigated the impact of individual age and preexisting health conditions on COVID-19 mortality rates, and found that national age structure and health condition distributions can capture different dimensions of risk. Both types of national risk profiles were correlated with COVID-19 mortality rates, emphasizing the need for cross-national comparative data on older adult population health.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, Nicole K. Smith, James Trussell
Article
Family Studies
Brandon Wagner
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
(2019)
Article
Sociology
Brandon G. Wagner
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Douglas S. Massey, Brandon Wagner, Louis Donnelly, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Irwin Garfinkel, Colter Mitchell, Daniel A. Notterman
RSF-THE RUSSELL SAGE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2018)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Nicole K. Smith, Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, James Trussell
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Nicole K. Smith, Scott Butler, Brandon Wagner, Erika Collazo, Lucia Caltabiano, Debby Herbenick
JOURNAL OF SEX & MARITAL THERAPY
(2017)