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Title: Diverging Destinies and Inequality of Opportunity Between Socioeconomic and Ethnic Groups in the United States
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Boertien, Diederik Bernardi, Fabrizio |
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Diverging Destinies and Inequality of Opportunity Between Socioeconomic and Ethnic Groups in the United States Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Ethnic Differences; Family Structure; Socioeconomic Background; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Family structure figures prominently in debates on inequality of opportunity. Recent empirical research, however, has questioned how important family structure is in creating unequal opportunities between children from different socio-economic backgrounds. In this article, we aim to provide an extensive documentation of the contribution of family structure to socioeconomic and ethnic inequality of opportunity in the United States. We use data from the NLSY 1997, and study ethnic and socioeconomic background differences in substance use and delinquency during adoloscence as well as health, income, educational attainment, unemployment, and life satisfaction during adulthood. We use Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to estimate to what extent variation in family structures can explain socioeconomic and ethnic background differences in these outcomes. Preliminary results suggest that family structure explains very few socioeconomic background differences in outcomes, but could possibly play a modest role in explaining differences in income and unemployment between ethnic groups. |
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Boertien, Diederik and Fabrizio Bernardi. "Diverging Destinies and Inequality of Opportunity Between Socioeconomic and Ethnic Groups in the United States." Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018. |