Journal
AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
Volume 48, Issue 9, Pages 1229-1249Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0002764205274817
Keywords
African Americans; occupational prestige; child development
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This article examines whether differences in parental occupational prestige mediate or moderate race differences in four indicators of child development-reading scores, math scores, Behavior problems Index, and health status-using data front the Panel Stud v of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement. The authors find that although for behavioral problems there is no impact of parental occupational prestige, for reading, math, and health there are significant academic returns to parental occupational prestige, but only for White families. The authors hypothesize that this racially, distinct dynamic may be a result of ongoing discrimination in the labor market, thereby, reducing the association between ability, (job and parenting) and prestige; or it may be a result of the difficulty of Blacks to translate occupational prestige gains into other benefits as a result of discrimination outside the labor market; or finally, it may, be the result of a generational lag between occupational status and parenting practices.
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