TY - JOUR
T1 - Childhood Car Access
T2 - Long-term Consequences for Education, Employment, and Earnings
AU - Ralph, Kelcie M.
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank the amazing staff at the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Data Users Workshop, as well as Nick Klein, Marty Wachs, and the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Do children suffer long-term consequences when they grow up without a car? To answer that question, this article uses propensity score matching and longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Young adults who were carless as children completed less education, worked for pay less often, experienced more unemployment, and earned less than their matched peers with consistent car access. The matching process allows me to compare like to like; it accounts for differences in income, wealth, residential location, family composition, and race. These results suggest that transportation disadvantage contributes to the intergenerational transmission of economic standing.
AB - Do children suffer long-term consequences when they grow up without a car? To answer that question, this article uses propensity score matching and longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Young adults who were carless as children completed less education, worked for pay less often, experienced more unemployment, and earned less than their matched peers with consistent car access. The matching process allows me to compare like to like; it accounts for differences in income, wealth, residential location, family composition, and race. These results suggest that transportation disadvantage contributes to the intergenerational transmission of economic standing.
KW - adolescence
KW - automobile access
KW - inequality
KW - transition to adulthood
KW - transportation disadvantage
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U2 - 10.1177/0739456X18798451
DO - 10.1177/0739456X18798451
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059465407
VL - 42
SP - 36
EP - 46
JO - Journal of Planning Education and Research
JF - Journal of Planning Education and Research
SN - 0739-456X
IS - 1
ER -