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

拟议的博士论文研究项目的目的是探讨如何代际转移的财富影响种族和民族之间的资产不平等和内部的黑人，白色和西班牙裔社区在当代美国社会。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;（2）资产产生的收入;（3）向子女转移生前礼物。分析两项全国性调查的数据，并对每个种族/族裔群体应用不同的模型，将仔细研究两个年龄组：1）在大萧条之前出生的老年人，并在第二次世界大战后经历了财产所有权的显著扩张;（二）由于经济及人口结构的转变，“婴儿潮一代”最有可能受到前所未有的财政资源跨代转移的影响。

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.