Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Speaker Series: Janeria Easley
When:
Tuesday, February 25
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Where:
ISR 2030 (CID) or via Zoom
Please register to attend
Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as Janeria Easley, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Emory University, presents, “Intergenerational Mobility: Racial Disparities in Mobility from a Holistic Perspective.”
Abstract: Domain-specific intergenerational elasticities of parent and child attainment, such as those capturing the relationship between parent’s education and child’s education, have been the ruling practice for studies of mobility since Blau and Duncan (1967). This practice has yielded very different conclusions about the extent of intergenerational persistence in the United States, with estimates ranging from .64 for neighborhood mobility to as low as .32 for occupation. We utilize the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to develop latent variables we term “origin profile” and “destination profile” based on five indicators: occupation, income, education, wealth, and neighborhood socioeconomic status. We find that Black White disparities in mobility between origin and destination profiles are quite profound.