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  • 1
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    Annual Reviews ; 2017
    In:  Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 43, No. 1 ( 2017-07-31), p. 75-99
    In: Annual Review of Sociology, Annual Reviews, Vol. 43, No. 1 ( 2017-07-31), p. 75-99
    Abstract: Despite long-standing recognition of the importance of family background in shaping life outcomes, only recently have empirical studies in demography, stratification, and other areas begun to consider the influence of kin other than parents. These new studies reflect the increasing availability of genealogical microdata that provide information about ancestors and kin over three or more generations. These data sets, including family genealogies, linked vital registration records, population registers, longitudinal surveys, and other sources, are valuable resources for social research on family, population, and stratification in a multigenerational perspective. This article reviews relevant recent studies, introduces and presents examples of the most important sources of genealogical microdata, identifies key methodological issues in the construction and analysis of genealogical data, and suggests directions for future research.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0360-0572 , 1545-2115
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Annual Reviews
    Publication Date: 2017
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    detail.hit.zdb_id: 751406-2
    SSG: 3,4
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  • 2
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    SAGE Publications ; 2015
    In:  Sociological Methods & Research Vol. 44, No. 4 ( 2015-11), p. 555-584
    In: Sociological Methods & Research, SAGE Publications, Vol. 44, No. 4 ( 2015-11), p. 555-584
    Abstract: Most intergenerational social mobility studies are based upon retrospective data, in which samples of individuals report socioeconomic information about their parents, an approach that provides representative data for offspring but not the parental generation. When available, prospective data on intergenerational mobility, which are based on a sample of respondents who report on their progeny, have conceptual and practical advantages. Prospective data are especially useful for studying social mobility across more than two generations and for developing joint models of social mobility and demographic processes. Because prospective data remain relatively scarce, we propose a method that corrects retrospective mobility data for the unrepresentativeness of the parental generation and thus permits them to be used for models of social mobility and demographic processes. We illustrate this method using both simulated data and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. In our examples, this method removes more than 95 percent of the bias in the retrospective data.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0049-1241 , 1552-8294
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    Language: English
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Publication Date: 2015
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 2002146-X
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 121808-6
    SSG: 3,4
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  • 3
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    SAGE Publications ; 2017
    In:  American Sociological Review Vol. 82, No. 3 ( 2017-06), p. 568-599
    In: American Sociological Review, SAGE Publications, Vol. 82, No. 3 ( 2017-06), p. 568-599
    Abstract: Despite the theoretical importance of intragenerational mobility and its connection to intergenerational mobility, no study since the 1970s has documented trends in intragenerational occupational mobility. The present article fills this intellectual gap by presenting evidence of an increasing trend in intragenerational mobility in the United States from 1969 to 2011. We decompose the trend using a nested occupational classification scheme that distinguishes between disaggregated micro-classes and progressively more aggregated meso-classes, macro-classes, and manual and nonmanual sectors. Log-linear analysis reveals that mobility increased across the occupational structure at nearly all levels of aggregation, especially after the early 1990s. Controlling for structural changes in occupational distributions modifies, but does not substantially alter, these findings. Trends are qualitatively similar for men and women. We connect increasing mobility to other macro-economic trends dating back to the 1970s, including changing labor force composition, technologies, employment relations, and industrial structures. We reassert the sociological significance of intragenerational mobility and discuss how increasing variability in occupational transitions within careers may counteract or mask trends in intergenerational mobility, across occupations and across more broadly construed social classes.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0003-1224 , 1939-8271
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    Language: English
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Publication Date: 2017
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 203405-0
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 2010058-9
    SSG: 2,1
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  • 4
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    SAGE Publications ; 2016
    In:  Sociological Methodology Vol. 46, No. 1 ( 2016-08), p. 319-344
    In: Sociological Methodology, SAGE Publications, Vol. 46, No. 1 ( 2016-08), p. 319-344
    Abstract: As an emerging research area, application of satellite-based nighttime lights data in the social sciences has increased rapidly in recent years. This study, building on the recent surge in the use of satellite-based lights data, explores whether information provided by such data can be used to address attenuation bias in the estimated coefficient when the regressor variable, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is measured with large error. Using an example of a study on infant mortality rates (IMRs) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), this paper compares four models with different indicators of GDP as the regressor of IMR: (1) observed GDP alone, (2) lights variable as a substitute, (3) a synthetic measure based on weighted observed GDP and lights, and (4) GDP with lights as an instrumental variable. The results show that the inclusion of nighttime lights can reduce the bias in coefficient estimates compared with the model using observed GDP. Among the three approaches discussed, the instrumental-variable approach proves to be the best approach in correcting the bias caused by GDP measurement error and estimates the effect of GDP much higher than do the models using observed GDP. The study concludes that beyond the topic of this study, nighttime lights data have great potential to be used in other sociological research areas facing estimation bias problems due to measurement errors in economic indicators. The potential is especially great for those focusing on developing regions or small areas lacking high-quality measures of economic and demographic variables.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0081-1750 , 1467-9531
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    Language: English
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Publication Date: 2016
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 2024264-5
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 207781-4
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  • 5
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    SAGE Publications ; 2015
    In:  American Sociological Review Vol. 80, No. 3 ( 2015-06), p. 574-602
    In: American Sociological Review, SAGE Publications, Vol. 80, No. 3 ( 2015-06), p. 574-602
    Abstract: Patrilineality, the organization of kinship, inheritance, and other key social processes based on patrilineal male descent, has been a salient feature of social organization in China and many other societies for centuries. Because patrilineage continuity or growth was the central focus of reproductive strategies in such societies, we introduce the number of patrilineal male descendants generations later as a stratification outcome. By reconstructing and analyzing 20,000 patrilineages in two prospective, multi-generational population databases from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century China, we show that patrilineages founded by high-status males had higher growth rates for the next 150 years. The elevated growth rate of these patrilineages was due more to their having a lower probability of extinction at each point in time than to surviving patrilineal male descendants having larger numbers of sons on average. As a result, male descendants of high-status males account for a disproportionately large share of the male population in later generations. In China and elsewhere, patrilineal kin network characteristics influence individuals’ life chances; effects of a male founder’s characteristics on patrilineage size many generations later thus represent an indirect channel of status transmission that has not been considered previously.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0003-1224 , 1939-8271
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    Language: English
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Publication Date: 2015
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 203405-0
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 2010058-9
    SSG: 2,1
    SSG: 3,4
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  • 6
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    SAGE Publications ; 2019
    In:  American Sociological Review Vol. 84, No. 6 ( 2019-12), p. 1037-1068
    In: American Sociological Review, SAGE Publications, Vol. 84, No. 6 ( 2019-12), p. 1037-1068
    Abstract: Most intergenerational mobility studies rely on either snapshot or time-averaged measures of earnings, but have yet to examine resemblance of earnings trajectories over the life course of successive generations. We propose a linked trajectory mobility approach that decomposes the progression of economic status over two generations into associations in four life-cycle dimensions: initial position, growth rate, growth deceleration, and volatility. Using father-son dyad data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we show that men resemble their fathers not only in the overall level of earnings but also in the pattern by which their earnings develop over time. The intergenerational persistence of earnings varies substantially across life stages of both generations; it is strongest for fathers’ early-career and sons’ mid-career, with an intergenerational elasticity (IGE) as high as .6. This result can be explained by the concurrence of the parent’s early career and the offspring’s early childhood. Our findings suggest the intergenerational economic association between parents and offspring is not age-constant but is contingent on the respective life stages of both generations and, most importantly, the period during which they overlap.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0003-1224 , 1939-8271
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    Language: English
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Publication Date: 2019
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 203405-0
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 2010058-9
    SSG: 2,1
    SSG: 3,4
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