#12332. Resource specificity in intergenerational inequality: The case of education, occupation, and income
August 2026 | publication date |
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Journal’s subject area: |
Demography;
Sociology and Political Science;
Geography, Planning and Development; |
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Abstract:
Socioeconomic status (SES) multidimensionality in the intergenerational transmission of inequality is examined by focusing on how multiple SES resources – education, occupation, and income – are transmitted over corresponding child outcomes. The degree to which transfers are generic or specific over resources is assessed and whether misspecification results in bias. The findings suggest that intergenerational inequality is subject to resource specificity, i.e., transmission is particular to given parental and child resource configurations. Within resource transmission implies that the same parental resource as the child outcome matter most in the transmission of advantage. In this sense, parental education is more important in the attainment of childrens education, while family economic (dis)advantage matter more for childrens economic status than other resources. Resource transmission follows a SES proximity pattern, where parental education is least correlated with child income, and parental income is least correlated with childrens education. Finally, the bias due to ignoring multidimensionality is estimated to an upper bound of 31 percent – with considerable confounding bias found as well. In sum, resource specificity offers a perspective on how socioeconomic inequality is (re)produced over generations.
Keywords:
Education; Income; Intergenerational inequality; Occupation; Resource specificity; Socioeconomic Status
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