Is a College Degree Still the Great Equalizer? Intergenerational Mobility across Levels of Schooling in the United States1

By Florencia Torche. American Journal of Sociology, 2011

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States* (2020, result): “(27)These findings are consistent with prior research using survey data showing that the association between children’s and parents’ incomes or occupational status is much weaker among college graduates (Hout 1988; Torche 2011).”
Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility (2017, unknown): “(31)These findings are consistent with prior research using survey data showing that the association between children’s and parents’ incomes or occupational status is much weaker among college graduates (Hout 1988; Torche 2011).”
The Role of Family Support in Facilitating Academic Success of Low-Income Students (2018, background): “College education is a key to upward mobility (Brand and Xie 2010; Torche 2011), but low-income students are substantially less likely to earn bachelor’s degrees than their more economically advantaged peers.”
Race and Stratification in College Enrollment Over Time (2018, background): “A mericAns have long recognized that education is one of the great drivers of social mobility; a bachelor’s degree provides one of the best chances for an economically secure life (Torche, 2011).”
First-generation Disadvantage and College Enrollment/Completion (2016, methodology): “Prior work has nevertheless shown larger, more sustainable labor market returns for those who earn a bachelor’s degree compared those with only a high school diploma or associate’s degree (e.g., Torche 2011).”
The Class Pay Gap in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations (2016, background): “The question of how to develop a more occupationally specific analysis of social mobility has been advanced in the United States, particularly by Grusky, Weeden, and their various collaborators (e.g., Grusky and Sørensen 1998; Jonsson et al. 2009).”
Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States (2012, methodology): “In research on American social mobility, Torche (2011) used recent data to replicate a pattern I found in data from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (Hout 1984, 1988).”
Reducing Income Inequality in Educational Attainment: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial Aid on College Completion1 (2016, background): “…College-educated people enjoy a range of advantages when it comes to employment, health, economic stability, the marriage market, and the tasks associated with parenting ðAttewell and Lavin 2007; Lleras-Muney and Cutler 2010; Torche 2011; Hout 2012; Oreopoulos and Petronijevic 2013; Schwartz 2013Þ.”
Analyses of Intergenerational Mobility (2015, background): “The net intergenerational association substantially varies across levels of schooling and is particularly weak among the highly educated (hout 1988; Torche 2011).”
Predatory Inclusion and Education Debt: Rethinking the Racial Wealth Gap (2017, background): “College education—like homeownership—is an important tool of economic mobility in the United States (Hout 2012; Torche 2011), especially in the context of credential inflation (Collins 1979; Cottom 2017).”
Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2019, methodology): “Such disparities within graduate education, combined with class-based discrimination in elite labor markets (see Rivera 2015; Rivera and Tilcsik 2016), may cause a “reemergence” of parental influence among advanced degree holders (Torche 2011).”
Disparities in Debt (2014, background): “Recent research suggests a four-year college degree breaks the link between parents’ and their adult children’s socioeconomic status, but the link reemerges for adult children who attain graduate degrees (Torche 2011).”