Mechanisms of Multiracial Economic Mobility

• In Event: 30420 - Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 13: Multiracial, Transracial Spaces, and Navigations

Abstract

Multiracial people comprise an increasing share of the American population. To better understand how racial inequality may uniquely shape the trajectories of this group, I will assess the economic mobility of multiracial adults using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). I will specify intergenerational mobility pathways for multiracial adults and compare models of intergenerational mobility with adults who identify as a single race. To capture group differences within the multiracial population and between multiracial and single race groups, I will generate percentile ranks to track occupational mobility and upward rank mobility to assess income mobility between parents and respondents in the sample. Past research on mechanisms for inequality among multiracial people has found links between race, appearance, and socioeconomic status that I will further test in this study (Irizarry, Monk, and Cobb 2023; Mitchell and Warren 2022; Saperstein, Kizer, and Penner 2016; Waring 2023).

Author

• Taylor Aquino, University of California-Los Angeles