… SE Mayer is a research associate and C. Jencks is a professor of sociology and on the
rescarch faculty at theCenter for Urban Affairs andPolicy Research, Northwestem Univcrsity, …

… Susan Mayer asks whether income directly affects children's life … Mayer then shows that
the things families purchase as their … Money alone, Mayer concludes, does not buy either the …

Stress can influence health throughout the lifespan, yet there is little agreement about what
types and aspects of stress matter most for human health and disease. This is in part …

The standard model of intergenerational mobility suggests that holding constant endowments,
investments in children's human capital increases their future income. If true, the source of …

… 14In order to make the comparisons in the text, Mayer used the standard deviation for
individuals to describe changes in both parental SES and classmates' mean SES. Thirtyfour …

… To estimate total family income we asked about each family member's income from nine
specific transfer programs (Social Security, General Assistance, Aid to Families with Dependent …

… Welfare income is found to be negatively associated with a range of children’s outcomes;
however, this seems to be due not to welfare receipt per se but to parental characteristics that …

… MAYER In 1968 John Kain published a seminal paper in which he argued that the high level
of joblessness among urban blacks was partly attributable to the fact that a growing fraction …

… Mayer is dean and an associate professor at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of
Public … (See also Mayer and Lopoo, in press, on the last point.) The implication is that, if …

Economic segregation increased in the US between 1970 and 1990. Three hypotheses
suggest that economic segregation affects low-income children's educational attainment, but …