Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments
Daniel Schneider; Orestes P Hastings; Joe LaBriola · 2018 · American Sociological Review
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Abstract
Historic increases in income inequality have coincided with widening class divides in parental investments of money and time in children. These widening class gaps are significant because parental investment is one pathway by which advantage is transmitted across generations. Using over three decades of micro-data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the American Heritage Time Use Survey linked to state-year measures of income inequality, we test the relationship between income inequality and class gaps in parental investment. We find robust evidence of wider class gaps in parental financi
Abstract by Daniel Schneider; Orestes P Hastings; Joe LaBriola, American Sociological Review (2018) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1177/0003122418772034