Kenneth Leonard
University of Maryland, MD·Social Science
Africa's population is young, and many of its young people are poor. Within a decade, most of the world's poor will live in Africa.
- Fields
Social Science
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
intergenerational mobility
poverty
inequality
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Feb 2030
What they work on
- Measure how strongly education and consumption, a proxy for long-term income, pass from parents to children by comparing Kagera, Tanzania respondents near age 40 with their parents at the same age in the first KHDS wave.
- Trace educational attainment across up to four generations of men and women in the 30-year Kagera Health and Development Survey panel, including relatives who migrated within Tanzania or abroad.
- Examine how young adults form households and move from school to work, focusing on gender and migration, using modules on preferences, family networks and household resource sharing given to random thirds of the sample.
More about the research
Today's African children have better schooling and health care than their parents did, and economies have grown faster. Yet little is known about whether these gains help young people move into adulthood and earn more than their parents. A key question is how much poverty passes from one generation to the next.
Why it matters
Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa remains high, especially among youth, young adults and rural residents. By measuring how poverty and education pass between generations and how young adults cope with shocks such as HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, refugee inflows and climate change, this work could help identify the gaps in support most likely to keep young adults from escaping poverty.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Maryland: 49 labs on PI Pages, $1.5B a year on research, 602 research doctorates a year.
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