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Author: Pattillo, Mary
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Conwell, Jordan Andrew Pattillo, Mary |
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College Mismatch and Socioeconomic Stratification and Intergenerational Mobility for Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics Presented: Seattle WA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): College Characteristics; College Enrollment; Ethnic Differences; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility, Economic; Parental Influences; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Researchers have recently called attention to the issue of college mismatch – students attending colleges of better quality (overmatch) or worse quality (undermatch) than their academic ability would predict. To date, the literature has reached inconsistent conclusions on whether non-white students are more or less likely than white students to mismatch. Further, studies have not investigated whether variations in college mismatch by race affect later socioeconomic stratification and intergenerational mobility by race. In this study, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to determine whether blacks and Hispanics were more or less likely than whites to attend a mismatched college and whether and how mismatch affected college-goers' socioeconomic life courses. Compared to whites, blacks and Hispanics were significantly more likely to overmatch and significantly less likely to undermatch in their college enrollments – consistent with the functioning of an affirmative action mechanism. College overmatch and undermatch had significant effects on college-goers' educational attainment, income earned after age 25, and intergenerational educational mobility from parents' years of schooling completed. Undermatching had negative effects on these outcomes, and overmatching had positive effects. Mismatch did not significantly affect college-goers' intergenerational income mobility from their parents' income rank. For many outcomes, compared to whites, non-white students received significantly higher positive returns to matching, significantly worse penalties for undermatching, and comparably high positive returns to overmatching. Our study adds college mismatch to understandings of higher education's role in processes of stratification and mobility and contributes to debates regarding affirmative action. |
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Conwell, Jordan Andrew and Mary Pattillo. "College Mismatch and Socioeconomic Stratification and Intergenerational Mobility for Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics." Presented: Seattle WA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2016. |
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Heflin, Colleen M. Pattillo, Mary |
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Kin Effects on Black-White Account and Home Ownership Sociological Inquiry 72,2 (Spring 2002): 220-239. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-682X.00014/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Assets; Black Studies; Family Structure; Home Ownership; Kinship; Poverty; Racial Differences; Siblings; Socioeconomic Factors; Wealth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article combines the literature on kin networks and racial disparities in asset ownership. Specifically, we examine the effects of kin characteristics—sibling poverty and parental poverty, education, and occupation—on financial account ownership and home ownership. We find that kin matter for these outcomes. Having a poor sibling and coming from a poor family are negatively associated with account and home ownership while mother's education has a positive effect. Separate analyses by race suggest that kin characteristics matter for both Blacks and Whites for account ownership, but for home ownership they are significant for Whites only. Racial differences in kin characteristics account for over half of the racial gap in account ownership, but are not important for understanding the racial gap in home ownership. The significant effects of extended family characteristics on socioeconomic well-being make a case for the inclusion of kin variables in the growing literature on wealth disparities among Blacks and Whites. |
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Heflin, Colleen M. and Mary Pattillo. "Kin Effects on Black-White Account and Home Ownership." Sociological Inquiry 72,2 (Spring 2002): 220-239.
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Heflin, Colleen M. Pattillo, Mary |
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Poverty in the Family: Race, Siblings, and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity Social Science Research 35,4 (December 2006): 804-822. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X04000870 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Academic Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Kinship; Racial Differences; Racial Studies; Siblings; Socioeconomic Background; Socioeconomic Status (SES) We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to characterize siblings of middle class and poor blacks and whites, testing for racial differences in the probability of having a sibling on the other side of the socioeconomic divide. In support of theories in the urban poverty literature about the social isolation of poor blacks, we find that poor African-Americans are less likely to have a middle class sibling than poor whites, controlling for individual and family background factors. For the middle class, being black is positively correlated with the probability of having a poor sibling, challenging the notion that the black middle class is separated from the black poor, but supporting recent research on black middle class fragility. Overall, we find that African-Americans are less likely than whites to have siblings that cross important social class lines in ways that are beneficial. Racial differences in the composition of kin networks may indicate another dimension of racial stratification. |
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Bibliography Citation
Heflin, Colleen M. and Mary Pattillo. "Poverty in the Family: Race, Siblings, and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity." Social Science Research 35,4 (December 2006): 804-822.
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