• DOI:10.1093/SF/SOR002
Corpus ID: 16514651

Cohort Change and Racial Differences in Educational and Income Mobility

@article{Bloome2011CohortCA,
  title={Cohort Change and Racial Differences in Educational and Income Mobility},
  author={Deirdre Bloome and Deirdre Bruce Western},
  journal={Social Forces},
  year={2011},
  volume={90},
  pages={375 - 395}
}

• Deirdre Bloome, Deirdre Bruce Western
• Published 2011
• Economics
• Social Forces

Policy reforms and rising income inequality transformed educational and economic opportunities for Americans approaching midlife in the 1990s. Rising income inequality may have reduced mobility, as income gaps increased between rich and poor children. Against the effects of rising inequality, Civil Rights reforms may have increased mobility, as opportunities expanded across cohorts of black students and workers. We compare educational and income mobility for two cohorts of black and white men… Expand