Differential fertility, intergenerational educational mobility, and racial inequality

The trend in average educational achievement in the US has not been greatly affected by the higher fertility rates among poorly educated women, with the effect of differential fertility virtually offset by the high rates of intergenerational educational mobility. Educational inequality between blacks and whites has not been greatly impacted by the historically higher fertility rates for black women than white women. A negative correlation between fertility and education in only demonstrated by white women. A population growth model was developing using data on black and white women from 1925 to 1995.