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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...

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Published in:Social Science Quarterly. Vol. 92; no. 1; pp. 57 - 79
Main Authors: Kalil, Ariel, Wightman, Patrick
Format: Article
Published: HWW Temp March 2011
Subjects:
Racial differences
Children of unemployed parents
Educational attainment
Middle class African Americans
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