RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 32
OP 56
DO 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.02
VO 10
IS 1
A1 Bailey, Martha J.
A1 Lin, Peter Z.
A1 Mohammed, A. R. Shariq
A1 Prettyman, Alexa
YR 2024
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/10/1/32.abstract
AB This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century. Using newly linked census and vital records from the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-database, we examine the occupational and educational mobility of more than 265,000 sons and daughters born in Ohio and North Carolina. We find that the deepest and most protracted downturn in U.S. history had limited effects on sons’ intergenerational mobility but reduced daughters’ intergenerational mobility.