TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ziefle, Andrea
T1  - Persistent educational advantage across three generations: Empirical evidence for Germany
T2  - Sociological science
N2  - This article uses survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to analyze the persistence of educational attainment across three generations in Germany. I obtain evidence of a robust effect of grandparents’ education on respondents’ own educational attainment in West Germany, net of parental class, education, occupational status, family income, parents’ relationship history, and family size. I also test whether the grandparent effect results from resource compensation or cumulative advantage and find empirical support for both mechanisms. In comparison, the intergenerational association between grandparents’ and respondents’ education is considerably weaker in East Germany and is also mediated completely by parental education. There are hardly any gender differences in the role of grandparents for respondents’ educational attainment, except for the fact that resource compensation is found to be exclusively relevant for women’s attainment in both West Germany and in East Germany after German reunification and the associated transition to an open educational system.
KW  - educational attainment
KW  - social mobility
KW  - inequality of educational opportunity
KW  - intergenerational transmission
KW  - multigenerational effects
KW  - cultural capital
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55041
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-550410
SN  - 2330-6696
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
VL  - 3
SP  - 1077
EP  - 1102
PB  - Society for Sociological Science
CY  - Stanford, CA
ER  -