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Childhood Income Volatility And Adult Outcomes, Bradley Hardy
Childhood Income Volatility And Adult Outcomes, Bradley Hardy
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
Using data linked across generations in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I estimate the relationship between exposure to volatile income during childhood and a set of socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood. The empirical framework is an augmented intergenerational income mobility model that includes controls for income volatility. I measure income volatility at the family level in two ways. First, instability as measured by squared deviations around a family-specific mean, and then as percent changes of 25 percent or more. Volatility enters the model both separately and interacted with income level. I find that family income instability during childhood has a …