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The Political Socialization of Adolescent Children of Immigrants

Melissa Humphries; Chandra Muller; Kathryn S. Schiller
Social Science Quarterly; 2013

Objectives
This study aims to evaluate the adolescent political socialization processes that predict political participation in young adulthood, and whether these processes are different for children of immigrants compared to white third-plus-generation adolescents. We focus on socialization agents based in the family, community, and school.

Methods

Nonresponse in Social Science Surveys: A Research Agenda

Panel on a Research Agenda for the Future of Social Science Data Collection
National Academies Press; 2013

In November 2010 the Russell Sage Foundation commissioned the National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics to assemble a panel of experts that would conduct a study to develop a research agenda for addressing issues related to the impact on social science data of the general decline in survey response by individuals and households.

Unauthorized Mexican Migration and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Frank D. Bean; James D. Bachmeier; Susan K. Brown; Jennifer Van Hook; Mark A. Leach
U.S. 2010; 2013

This study analyzes the sources of unauthorized Mexican immigration to the United States, the disadvantages faced by unauthorized immigrants in the labor market, and especially the long term impact on educational achievement by their US-born children and grandchildren Children of legal Mexican immigrants averaged two more years of schooling compared to children of illegal immigrants, the equivalent of the difference between having some college and not finishing high school. Clear pathways to legalization can boost Mexican American educational attainment even as late as the third generation.

Income Inequality and Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States

Deirdre Bloome
Working Paper; 2013

Is there a relationship between family income inequality and income mobility across generations in the United States? As family income inequality rose in the U.S., parental resources available for improving children’s health, education, and care diverged. The amount and rate of divergence also varied across U.S. states. Researchers and policy analysts have expressed concern that relatively high inequality might be accompanied by relatively low mobility, tightening the connection between individuals’ incomes during childhood and adulthood.

Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans

Benjamin Page; Larry M. Bartels; Jason Seawright
Perspectives on Politics; 2013

It is important to know what wealthy Americans seek from politics and how (if at all) their policy preferences differ from those of other citizens. There can be little doubt that the wealthy exert more political influence than the less affluent do. If they tend to get their way in some areas of public policy, and if they have policy preferences that differ significantly from those of most Americans, the results could be troubling for democratic policy making.