Parental Job Loss and Children's Educational Attainment in Black and White Middle-Class Families.
Objectives. We aim to understand why blacks are significantly less likely than whites to perpetuate their middle-class status across generations. To do so, we focus on the potentially different associations between parental job loss and youth's educational attainment in black and white middle-class...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Quarterly. Vol. 92; no. 1; pp. 57 - 79 |
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