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

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...

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Published inRSF : Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 32 - 56
Main Authors BAILEY, MARTHA J., LIN, PETER Z., MOHAMMED, A. R. SHARIQ, PRETTYMAN, ALEXA
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Russell Sage Foundation 01.01.2024
Subjects
20th century
Censuses
children
Daughters
Education
Enrollments
Families & family life
GNP
Great Depression
Gross National Product
Income inequality
Intergenerational mobility
Labor market
Mental depression
Occupational mobility
Occupations
Parents & parenting
PART I Economic Disruptions
Retail sales
Siblings
Socioeconomic factors
Sons
Upward mobility
North Carolina
United States > US
Ohio
intergenerational mobility
children
Great Depression
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:2377-8253
2377-8261
DOI:10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.02