A Deadly Inheritance: Intergenerational Impacts of Kinship and Household Mortality
Blacks are more likely than whites to experience deaths of multiple family members and experience them at earlier ages. While a great deal of alarm has been raised about recent declines in life expectancy among whites, blacks still live on average 4 years less than whites. Yet, little work has analyzed how network deaths contribute to racial inequities in SES. This project seeks to quantify Black-white disparities in familial and household exposure to death, and their relationship to SES.