Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality

Darity, William A.

doi:10.1257/jel.20211690

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“…In contrast, when the median voter expects a political takeover by the elite in the future, she is incentivized to maintain democracy if her perceived mobility does not guarantee her elite membership Both implications highlight the importance of analyzing positional mobility patterns to understand better the institutional arrangement regarding the distribution of resources in a society. This is consistent with the emphasis of stratification economics on the hierarchical organization of society and how members of each echelon will deploy different resources to defend their position or climb in the social hierarchy (Darity Jr., 2022). Similarly, it is consistent with the sociological literature on Effectively Maintained Inequality (Lucas, 2017), which highlights how elite members modify the institutional landscape once a particular educational level has reached saturation to maintain privileged access to the subsequent educational levels.…”

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The importance of positional mobility for regional comparisons

Monroy-Gómez-Franco¹

2022

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In this paper, I show how the decomposition of intergenerational persistence indicators into their structural and positional components allows to gain a better understanding of the determinants of the heterogeneity in intergenerational mobility at the subnational level. The crucial element for the separate analysis of positional and structural mobility is the use of regionally defined instead of nationally defined quantiles. This constitutes a departure of the current consensus in the estimations of mobility rates at the subnational level in economics. Using the Mexican case as an example, I show that in terms of positional mobility, there are no significant differences across the regions of the country. This contrast with the existing results and their interpretations, particularly regarding intergenerational mobility in the south region of the country. This highlights the importance of incorporating positional measures into the battery of tools used for intranational analysis.

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The importance of positional mobility for regional comparisons

Monroy-Gómez-Franco¹

2022

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“…These results are very specific to the racial stratification regime of the US, where racial origins are usually determined according to the person's ascendancy, omitting variability within groups in other immutable characteristics such as skin tone (Darity Jr., 2022;Chelwa et al, 2022). This is particularly the case in Latin American countries, where the ethnic origin is defined according to the person's ascendancy, and racial adscription is commonly associated with the person's skin tone (Dixon and Telles, 2017;Solís et al, 2019;Telles and Paschel, 2014).…”

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“…For recent surveys on the subject seeCholli and Durlauf (2022);Deutscher and Mazumder (2021) 2 By stratification structure I refer to the set of formal and informal institutions that produce intergroup inequalities and hierarchies in society. SeeDarity Jr. (2022) …”

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Shades of social mobility: Colorism, ethnic origin and intergenerational social mobility.

Monroy-Gómez-Franco¹

2022

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In this paper, I study the difference in intergenerational mobility patterns between the indigenous and non-indigenous Mexican populations, analyzing the role played by the variability in skin tones inside both groups. I employ a composite sample based on two recent surveys with the same sampling frame and questionnaire design. I obtained three main results based on rank-rank regressions, transition matrices, and quantile rank regressions. First, the indigenous population faces a higher degree of intergenerational persistence and remains concentrated at the bottom of the distribution of economic resources. Secondly, the indigenous population faces less upward mobility from the bottom of the distribution but similar rates of persistence to the non-indigenous population at the top. Furthermore, there is a skin tone gradient for the indigenous and non-indigenous populations, where lighter skin tones tend to remain at a higher rank in the distribution of economic resources than darker skin tones.

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“…How do these group-based inequalities originate and persist over time? A growing body of work in stratification economics has highlighted how formal and informal institutions within societies can shape differential outcomes across groups through public policy, and the inequitable application of social, economic and political power (Darity Jr, 2022;Chelwa, Hamilton, and Stewart, 2022;Archibong, 2018). These institutions can then maintain group-based inequality, further entrenching social hierarchies where members of some groups are more "subaltern" or marginalized relative to other groups (Darity Jr, 2022).…”

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