Persistent educational advantage across three generations: Empirical evidence for Germany
- 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.
Author: | Andrea Ziefle |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-550410 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15195/v3.a47 |
ISSN: | 2330-6696 |
Parent Title (English): | Sociological science |
Publisher: | Society for Sociological Science |
Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
Contributor(s): | Jesper Sørensen, Kim Weeden |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Date of first Publication: | 2016/12/12 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/07/27 |
Tag: | cultural capital; educational attainment; inequality of educational opportunity; intergenerational transmission; multigenerational effects; social mobility |
Volume: | 3 |
Page Number: | 26 |
First Page: | 1077 |
Last Page: | 1102 |
Note: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 467745986 |
Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |