Journal article
And their children after them? The effect of college on educational reproduction
- Abstract:
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Conventional analyses of social mobility and status reproduction retrospectively compare an outcome of individuals to a characteristic of their parents. By ignoring the mechanisms of family formation and excluding childless individuals, conventional approaches introduce selection bias into estimates of how characteristics in one generation affect an outcome in the next. The prospective approach introduced here integrates the effects of college on marriage and fertility into the reproduction o...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal of Sociology Journal website
- Volume:
- 122
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 532–72
- Publication date:
- 2016-09-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-07-02
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1537-5390
- ISSN:
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0002-9602
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:577286
- UUID:
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uuid:898ec530-4dc0-4b8f-98e8-b88bcc1b3398
- Local pid:
- pubs:577286
- Source identifiers:
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577286
- Deposit date:
- 2015-11-30
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- Copyright holder:
- University of Chicago
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Rights statement:
- © 2016 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
- Notes:
- This is the publisher's version of the article. The final version is available online from the University of Chicago Press at: https://doi.org/10.1086/687592
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