{"title":"Beyond parental wealth: Grandparental wealth and the transition to adulthood","authors":"Emma Zang , Christina Gibson-Davis , Haolun Li","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100878","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100878","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study considers the multigenerational consequences of wealth transmission for the transition to young adulthood. Using a wider set of outcomes than has previously been considered, and by analyzing parental and grandparental wealth simultaneously, this work underscores the salience of multiple generations of wealth as a predictor for young adult well-being. Data comes from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics on a sample of youth followed from mid-adolescence until the age of 20. Results from linear regression models indicate that parental wealth was associated with increases in the probability of college attendance and steady employment and inversely associated with the likelihood of nonmarital birth and idleness. Grandparental wealth predicted non-educational outcomes at least as well as parental wealth did and explained more variance in young adults’ outcomes when parental wealth was lower. The association between parental wealth and non-educational outcomes suggest that wealth may inform young adults’ broader life course by predicting outcomes other than college attendance. Grandparental wealth may serve a compensatory function for children with low parental wealth. Results suggest that persistently low wealth across multiple generations may impede the successful transition to young adulthood.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100878"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001221/pdfft?md5=6df832dc634904f060b4801ede4d8f30&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001221-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138689207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent","authors":"Sun-Jae Hwang","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100875","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100875","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines subjective inequality in South Korea, stressing the multi-dimensional and domain-specific nature of subjective inequality with its broader socio-political implications. Based on a comprehensive survey of current inequalities in Korea, three dimensions of subjective inequality (perception, belief, and discontent) are explored over two principal domains of inequality (opportunities and outcomes). In particular, the new measure of subjective inequality, inequality discontent, is first developed and proposed in this study. The results show that Koreans perceive the level of outcome inequalities (income and wealth) as higher than opportunity inequalities (education and employment), but interestingly, they also believe that inequality of outcomes should be higher than that of opportunities. The level of discontent, however, was found to be equally high across all domains and areas. The utility of discontent as a new concept of subjective inequality is empirically tested against regression analysis of redistributive government interventions. This emphasis on the multi-dimensional and domain-specific understanding of inequalities better elucidates the public’s reactions to socioeconomic inequalities and enables the development of more appropriate inequality policies in Korea and beyond.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100875"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001191/pdfft?md5=8205726a66e93574fe8e55caff14ffb1&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001191-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138689131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educational expansion, fields of study, and the gender gap in analytic skill usage on the job","authors":"Jonathan Horowitz, Sagi Ramaj","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100877","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100877","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates how higher education expansion changes gender gaps in analytic skill usage on the job in the United States, and its variation across fields of study at the bachelor’s degree level. The present study proposes two patterns for graduates of a given field: One where educational expansion reinforces gender gaps, and another where it dissolves them. Using data from four different cohort studies, we find that educational expansion leads to less analytic skill usage at the bachelor’s degree level. However, this is not universally true, and educational expansion produces very different effects by gender and field of study. Thus, while multiple theories about educational expansion and majors explain these patterns, the specific applicability of them depends on the field of study itself.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100877"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027656242300121X/pdfft?md5=cb9bd3a3c5829955e64a90d8d2d7b095&pid=1-s2.0-S027656242300121X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138689138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco J. Marco-Gracia , Ángel Luis González-Esteban
{"title":"Occupational mobility and biological well-being: A perspective over three generations in rural Spain, 1835–1959","authors":"Francisco J. Marco-Gracia , Ángel Luis González-Esteban","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100870","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article analyses the effects of occupational mobility on biological well-being from a long-term perspective. While it is well known that occupation and heights were closely related in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, our analysis shows that variations in the occupational status of parents and social mobility relative to grandparents also help to explain the evolution of biological well-being in subsequent generations. Drawing on data on height and socio-economic status for almost 4000 individuals born between 1835 and 1959, this paper analyzes the effects of occupational changes on statures over three generations in a period when opportunities for access to land improved in rural Spain. Our results indicate that (1): there was a strong positive relationship between fathers' occupational status and children's biological well-being; (2) improvements in the parental socioeconomic status had a rapid impact on the height of the male children if this improvement occurred during the period when the sons were growing up, and (3) the social mobility of parents in relation to grandparents also had a noticeable effect on the height of their children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100870"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001142/pdfft?md5=07d2eed2a3af12e2744a90b20d3bbf6c&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001142-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138492821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is it the school of fish or the size of the pond that matters? An experimental examination of reference group effects in secondary school","authors":"Christoph Zangger , Sandra Gilgen , Nora Moser","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100869","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100869","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Do teachers consider not only an individual student's performance and abilities but also the number of motivated peers in a class as a frame of reference when deciding whether or not to recommend them for academic high school? Given the limited number of places available in such schools in the short run, we argue that a student's chances of being recommended depend on the number of competitors and especially whether they already secured a recommendation for themselves. Using choice experiments presenting groups of three to five students to pre-service secondary school teachers in Switzerland, we show how the individual probability for a recommendation for the most advantageous school track depends on the size of the reference group. Furthermore, individual chances are especially affected by the number of other students in the group that the teacher deems fit for academic high school: The higher the share of competitors in the reference group with a recommendation, the smaller the individual chances. These effects are robust across samples, methods, and with respect to alternative mechanisms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100869"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001130/pdfft?md5=d81edc3adcdcb780c9192c56a7cc4185&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001130-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138492820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Raúl Jorrat , Pablo Dalle , Sandra Fachelli , Manuel Riveiro
{"title":"Historical evolution of intergenerational class mobility and educational effects in urban Argentina: 1960–2017","authors":"Jorge Raúl Jorrat , Pablo Dalle , Sandra Fachelli , Manuel Riveiro","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100868","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Argentinean case –given an early modernization and the singularity of its reversal of development- is instructive about the role of education on intergenerational class mobility. We propose a wide historical analysis of time variations in intergenerational class mobility and the role of education over different periods in urban Argentina –specifically in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, from 1960 to 2017. This is the first time a long-term social mobility study has been conducted in Argentina. We analyse intergenerational social mobility according to EGP class scheme, using absolute rates, log-linear models, and long-term counterfactual analysis. Results show a social fluidity process for men but not for women. The counterfactual analysis exhibits that most social fluidity among men was due to a reduction in the direct class origin-class destination effect. No evidence of effects of educational expansion or educational equalization is observed. This presence of moderate social fluidity has not been linked to a modernization process which expands vertical upward mobility. Instead, it took place in a context of deindustrialization and the decline of the skilled working class.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100868"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001129/pdfft?md5=81a85102bf4eeafcf0e914f40ebd4274&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001129-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert Mare’s legacy in neighborhood research","authors":"Elizabeth E. Bruch","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100811","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100811","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This essay provides a personal and material account of Robert D. Mare's contributions to neighborhood research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"88 ","pages":"Article 100811"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49173076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rob Mare career trajectory transcription","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100797","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100797","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"88 ","pages":"Article 100797"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41636874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rob Mare’s legacy: The demography of inequality and social mobility","authors":"Vida Maralani","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100808","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100808","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review summarizes Rob Mare's contributions to the study of the demographic pathways of inequality and social mobility. Mare proposed a groundbreaking research agenda in this area. His vision was to advance research on social inequality and intergenerational social mobility by incorporating the many demographic mechanisms that shape population characteristics. Together with his students, Mare pushed these ideas forward throughout his career, and he inspired the work of many other stratification scholars.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"88 ","pages":"Article 100808"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48133614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rob Mare’s research trajectory as a model of cumulative science","authors":"Michael Hout","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100805","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100805","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rob Mare's research elaborated and deepened the \"basic model\" of social stratification articulated by Blau and Duncan. Mare modeled education, the central explanatory variable in the Blau-Duncan model, as a series of transitions from lower to higher achievement. This approach made the model more realistic and helped focus substantive attention on high school dropout. He, in collaboration with Winship, added unemployment to the stratifying outcomes. With several collaborators, mostly students, he added fertility and mortality to the model. Most recently he articulated a multigenerational model that applied the demography to dynasties and challenged researchers to think more about systems aspects of stratification. In a unique career, Rob Mare expanded the “old school” one-sex, two-generation model in all dimensions. He left us with a two-sex, multigenerational model that addresses changes in both the stratification system and fundamental demography.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"88 ","pages":"Article 100805"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47101313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}