Shared Lifetimes, Multigenerational Exposure, and Educational Mobility

Xi Song () and Robert D. Mare
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Xi Song: University of Chicago
Robert D. Mare: University of California, Los Angeles

Demography, 2019, vol. 56, issue 3, No 5, 916 pages

Abstract: Abstract In this article, we report analyses of the effects of fertility and mortality trends on the mutual exposure of grandparents and grandchildren and their consequences for multigenerational processes of social mobility in the United States from 1900 to 2010. Using historical vital statistics and stable population models, we report systematic analyses of grandparent-grandchild exposures from both prospective (grandparent) and retrospective (grandchild) perspectives. We also estimate exposure levels and trends specific to education levels of grandparents and grandchildren and decompose the overall trend into the effect of changing mortality, fertility level, and fertility timing. We show that changes in mutual exposure of grandparent and grandchild generations may have contributed to an increasing association between grandparents’ and grandchildren’s educational attainments.

Keywords: Multigenerational exposure; Grandparents; Demographic change; Social mobility; Educational attainment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s13524-019-00772-8

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