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1. Musick, Kelly
Mare, Robert D.
Recent Trends in the Inheritance of Poverty and Family Structure
Working Paper CCPR-002-04, California Center for Population Research, Los Angeles, 2004. Also:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9th763q5
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: California Center for Population Research (CCPR)
Keyword(s): Family Structure; Fertility; Inheritance; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility; Modeling; Parenthood; Parents, Single; Poverty

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This study investigates trends in the interdependence of poverty and family structure from one generation to the next, focusing specifically on mothers and daughters. This aspect of the mobility process has not been explored, despite widespread concern about the life chances of children in poor single-parent families and dramatic changes in the distributions of poverty and family structure in recent decades. We examine origin-by-destination status along the two dimensions of poverty and family structure, using rich panel data and loglinear models to parse out the associations between poverty and family structure within and across generations. Our results show that the intergenerational associations between poverty and family structure are strong, but operate through largely independent pathways. Net of the correlation between poverty and family structure within a generation, the intergenerational transmission of poverty is significantly stronger than the intergenerational transmission of family structure, and neither childhood poverty nor family structure affects the other in adulthood. Finally, despite important changes in the distributions of poverty and family structure, we find no evidence of change in the processes of intergenerational inheritance over time.
Bibliography Citation
Musick, Kelly and Robert D. Mare. "Recent Trends in the Inheritance of Poverty and Family Structure." Working Paper CCPR-002-04, California Center for Population Research, Los Angeles, 2004. Also:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9th763q5.