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Passing It On: Parent-to-Adult Child Financial Transfers for School and Socioeconomic Attainment

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Rauscher, Emily·2016·RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
DOI 10.7758/rsf.2016.2.6.09
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Emily Rauscher, Passing It On: Parent-to-Adult Child Financial Transfers for School and Socioeconomic Attainment, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 6, Wealth Inequality: Economic and Social Dimensions (October 2016), pp. 172-196

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  • Higher-wealth families can draw on their assets, often alongside income, to afford college, whereas low-wealth students-even those with moderate family income-may struggle to cover the costs of postsecondary education.

    “Higher-wealth families can draw on their assets, often alongside income, to afford college, whereas low-wealth students-even those with moderate family income-may struggle to cover the costs of postsecondary education (Rauscher, 2016).”

    From Wealth, Race, and Under-Addressed Financial Need in Federal Student Aid Policy (2025) · cites this paper as Rauscher, 2016

    The Results report substantially larger parental transfers for school among higher-wealth families, and the Conclusion links parental wealth to the ability to finance postsecondary education. The paper does not specifically establish that students from low-wealth families with moderate income struggle to cover college costs; that income-specific qualification goes beyond the reported findings. The indexed passages provide section labels but no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Parental wealth is central to the financial transfers that play a growing role in students' college financing.

    “Parental wealth is central to the financial transfers that play a growing role in students' college financing (Rauscher, 2016).”

    From Wealth, Race, and Under-Addressed Financial Need in Federal Student Aid Policy (2025) · cites this paper as Rauscher, 2016

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Authors
Rauscher, E.
Corresponding author
Rauscher, Emily
ORCID
Rauscher, Emily
Venue
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
Published
2016-10
Volume
2
Issue
6
Pages
172-196
ISSN
  • 2377-8253 (ISSN-L)
  • 2377-8261
DOI
10.7758/rsf.2016.2.6.09
OpenAlex
W2550203201
Cited by
67
References
78
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4
FWCI
19.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Parental Involvement in Education
Keywords
intergenerational financial transfers, parental support, adult children, school attainment, socioeconomic attainment, wealth inequality, intergenerational mobility

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