POL113H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Social Mobility
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Where you"re born in a social economical hierarchy determines your chances in life or where you"ll end up. The vid created a series of mobility matrices" showing how income status in one generation influences income status in the next. They chose to use c-nlsy and nlsy79 because it allowed us to keep the data set consistent across the 3 types of matrices presented (race, education, and marital status). Another dataset often used is the panel survey of. This started in 1968, so more of the children of the original respondents have reached adulthood. Family structure can have a lasting impact on a child"s life path. It isn"t just whether parents are married when a child is born, but the stability of caring relationships throughout childhood. Many unmarried mothers get married; many married mothers get divorced. Its not necessarily marriage in itself that matters for mobility married parents differ from single parents in many more ways than just relationship status.
