Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin
Ability and the American Dream: Has Anything Changed?
Thursday, April 3 at 7:30pm in Physics-Astronomy A110
This talk will combine an overview of
concepts and methods of studying intergenerational occupational
stratification with a review of trends in social stratification
among blacks and whites, the role of cognitive ability in
stratification, and putative trends in the causes and
consequences of cognitive ability. The presentation draws on the
tradition of causal modeling of processes of social
stratification that began with the work of Otis Dudley Duncan and
Robert W. Hodge, but is more widely associated with the later
work of Duncan with Peter Blau.
The talk will draw in part on three working papers that are
on-line:
Robert M. Hauser and Min-Hsiung Huang.
Trends in Black-White
Test Score Differentials. IRP Discussion Paper 1110-96.
Robert M. Hauser and John Robert Warren.
Socioeconomic Indexes for
Occupations: A Review, Update, and Critique. CDE Working Paper
96-01. (Links to indexes as well as to the paper.)
Robert M. Hauser, John Robert Warren, Min-Hsiung Huang, and Wendy
Y. Carter.
Occupational Status, Education, and Social Mobility
in the Meritocracy. CDE Working Paper 96-18.
This talk will draw on several bodies of data that are in the
public domain:
1962 and 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation Surveys
NORC General Social Survey
Survey of Income and Program Participation
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study