Effects of Grandparents' Education on Grandchildren's Education

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  • 孫の教育達成に対する祖父母学歴の効果
  • 孫の教育達成に対する祖父母学歴の効果 : 父方母方の別と孫の性別・出生順位に着目して
  • マゴ ノ キョウイク タッセイ ニ タイスル ソフボ ガクレキ ノ コウカ : チチカタ ハハカタ ノ ベツ ト マゴ ノ セイベツ ・ シュッショウ ジュンイ ニ チャクモク シテ
  • Interactions by Paternal/Maternal Distinction, Gender, and Birth Order
  • —父方母方の別と孫の性別・出生順位に着目して—

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The focus of most previous studies on the effects of family background on children's educational attainment was limited to the nuclear family. The purpose of this paper is to transcend this limit by clarifying the correlations of grandparents' education and grandchildren's education. Using the NFRJ08 (National Family Research of Japan 2008) survey, which collects information on the educational attainment of a respondent's extended family, we examine the above correlations focusing on interactions by paternal/maternal distinction and grandchildren's gender and birth order.<br>The main results show that grandparents' education has direct effects on grandchildren's education, net of their parents' education; the direct effects of grandparents' education are strong if parents' education is relatively high; the effects do not vary by paternal/maternal distinction; contrary to the “same gender sequence hypothesis,” both the effects of maternal grandmothers' education on granddaughters' education and the effects of paternal grandfathers' education on grandsons' education are not strong; and the effects of grandparents' education are weak for second grandchildren.

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