Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transmitting Inequality: An Asset-based Analysis of Racial Ethic Inequality and its Intergenarational Transmission

博士论文研究：传递不平等：基于资产的种族伦理不平等及其代际传递分析

• 批准号: 9906969
• 负责人: Seymour Spilerman
• 金额: $ 0.43万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-08-01 至 2001-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9906969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Transmitting; Inequality

The aim of the proposed doctoral dissertation research project is to explore how intergenerational transfers of wealth affect racial and ethnic inequality in assets between and within the Black, White and Hispanic communities in contemporary American society. The study builds on theories of social stratification and hypothesizes that inheritance of material resources is an increasingly important factor which determines racial and ethnic disparity in (1) ownership and magnitude of assets; (2) income generated from assets; and (3) transfers of inter-vivos gifts to children. Analyzing data from two national surveys, and applying different models to each of the racial/ethnic groups, two age cohorts will be closely studied: 1) the elderly who were born before the depression, and have experienced a prominent expansion in property ownership in the post World War II era; and 2) the 'baby-boomers' who, as a result of economic and demographic changes, are the most likely to be affected by intergenerational transfers of unprecedented amount of financial resources.

拟议的博士论文研究项目的目的是探讨财富的代际转移如何影响当代美国社会中黑人，白人和西班牙裔社区之间和内部的种族和民族资产不平等。该研究建立在社会分层理论的基础上，并假设物质资源的继承是一个越来越重要的因素，它决定了种族和民族在以下方面的差异：(1)资产的所有权和数量；（二）资产产生的收入；(3)向子女转移生前赠予。通过分析两项全国性调查的数据，并对每个种族/民族采用不同的模型，对两个年龄群进行了深入研究：1)在大萧条之前出生的老年人，他们在二战后经历了财产所有权的显著扩张；2)由于经济和人口结构的变化，“婴儿潮一代”最有可能受到前所未有的财政资源代际转移的影响。