Sorting, Constraint, and Socialization: Accounting for the Growing Parent-Child Transmission Gap

• In Event: Political Socialization from Boomers to Zoomers

Brief Overview

Using data on parents and their children spanning from 1965 through 2018 I demonstrate that the more constrained and sorted a parent’s political attitudes are the more successful they are passing on their political attitudes to their children.

Author

• Clinton Jenkins, Birmingham Southern College