Family background consistently affects economic success across the life cycle: A research note on how brother correlations overlap over the life course

IF 2.7 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-01-28 DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.13081

Kristian Bernt Karlson

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Abstract

Scholars of social mobility increasingly study the role of family background in shaping attainment throughout the entire life course. However, research has yet to establish whether the family characteristics influencing early career attainment are the same as those influencing late career attainment. In this research note, I apply an extended sibling correlation approach to analyze brothers’ life cycle earnings and family income, using data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. My analysis reveals a near-perfect correlation in the family characteristics that affect attainment at early, mid, and late career stages. This finding has significant implications for how mobility scholars conceptualize the impact of family background across a career. It suggests that family background forms a single, consistent dimension in determining attainment throughout the life course. Further analysis also indicates that the imperfect relationship between current and lifetime income is exclusively driven by within-family processes.

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家庭背景始终影响着整个生命周期的经济成就：关于兄弟相关性如何在生命历程中重叠的研究说明。

研究社会流动性的学者越来越多地研究家庭背景在整个人生过程中对成就的影响。然而，研究尚未确定影响早期职业成就的家庭特征是否与影响晚期职业成就的家庭特征相同。在本研究报告中，我利用 1979 年美国全国青年纵向调查的数据，运用扩展的兄弟姐妹相关方法分析了兄弟的生命周期收入和家庭收入。我的分析揭示了影响早期、中期和晚期职业生涯成就的家庭特征之间近乎完美的相关性。这一发现对于流动性学者如何看待家庭背景对整个职业生涯的影响具有重要意义。它表明，家庭背景形成了一个单一的、一致的维度，决定着整个生命历程中的成就。进一步的分析还表明，当前收入与终生收入之间的不完美关系完全是由家庭内部过程驱动的。

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