The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility

Martha J. Bailey; Peter Z. Lin; A. R. Shariq Mohammed; Alexa Prettyman

doi:10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.02

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vol. 10 no. 1 32-56

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

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2377-8261

History

Published online January 17, 2024.

© 2024 Russell Sage Foundation. Bailey, Martha J., Peter Z. Lin, A. R. Shariq Mohammed, and Alexa Prettyman 2024. “The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(1): 32–56. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.02. The LIFE-M project was generously supported by the National Science Foundation (SMA 1539228), the National Institute on Aging (R21 AG05691201), the University of Michigan Population Studies Center Small Grants (R24 HD041028), the Michigan Center for the Demography of Aging (MiCDA, P30 AG012846-21), the University of Michigan Associate Professor Fund, and the Michigan Institute on Research and Teaching in Economics (MITRE). We gratefully acknowledge the use of the Population Studies Center’s services and facilities at the University of Michigan (P2CHD041028) and the California Center for Population Research at UCLA (P2CHD041022). Direct correspondence to: Martha J. Bailey, at marthabailey@g.ucla.edu; Peter Z. Lin, at zhixian.lin@wku.edu, Western Kentucky University, United States; A. R. Shariq Mohammed, at ab.mohammed@northeastern.edu, Northeastern University, United States; Alexa Prettyman, at cprettyman@towson.edu, Towson University, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Martha J. Bailey^a,
Peter Z. Lin^b,
A. R. Shariq Mohammed^c and
Alexa Prettyman^d

^aProfessor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, United States
^bAssistant professor of economics at Western Kentucky University
^cAssistant professor of economics at Northeastern University
^dAssistant professor of economics at Towson University

Correspondence authors:
Martha J. Bailey, (marthabailey{at}g.ucla.edu), Peter Z. Lin, (zhixian.lin{at}wku.edu), A. R. Shariq Mohammed, (ab.mohammed{at}northeastern.edu), Alexa Prettyman, (cprettyman{at}towson.edu)

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