2457 - The Next Generation of Intergenerational Mobility Research

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

After a decade or more of near quiescence, mobility scholarship within sociology has experienced a massive revival. This revival is driven by a resurgence of interest in classic questions about variations in mobility across time and place, but also by growing interest in multigenerational mobility and in the relationship between mobility and other types of inequality. The papers in this panel tackle some of the central questions of this next generation of mobility scholarship. What do updated data tell us about differences and similarities between countries in intergenerational mobility? How and why do family advantages and disadvantages get passed on across three or more generations? Does being born into a class have a lingering effect on adult economic outcomes, even among adults who move into advantaged class positions? And, how does the lived experience of mobility affect happiness and other non-economic outcomes?

Sub Unit

• Social Mobility

Session Organizer

• Kim Weeden, Cornell University

Individual Presentations

• Intergenerational Class Mobility in Europe: A New Account and an Old Story - Marii Paskov, University of Oxford; Erzsebet Bukodi, Institute of Education, University of London; Brian Nolan, University of Oxford

• Multigenerational Cycles of Poverty? The Transmission of Family Poverty across Three Generations - Fabian T. Pfeffer, University of Michigan; Davis Daumler, University of Michigan; Jingying He, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Income Returns to Class and Occupational Inheritance - Colin G. Peterson, Stanford University

• Social Mobility and Life Satisfaction in Europe: A Compositional Perspective on Dissociative Consequences - Jasper Dhoore, Ghent University; Stijn Daenekindt, Ghent University; Henk Roose, Ghent University