The demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment ----- the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproduction
<p>The intergenerational transmission of education examines to what extent has one generation's attainment determined the next generation's attainment. It is deemed an important indicator of social fluidity and inequality. This thesis explores the demographic pathways of intergenerat...
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| description | <p>The intergenerational transmission of education examines to what extent has one generation's attainment determined the next generation's attainment. It is deemed an important indicator of social fluidity and inequality. This thesis explores the demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission, focusing on fertility and assortative mating. It includes four self-contained essays, two on fertility and two on assortative mating.</p>
<p>Chapter One brought the previous individual-level inquiries on the relationship between sibship size and educational attainment to the societal level. Using the case of China, findings show that fertility decline during its One Child Policy era brought modest improvement in the average educational attainment of the country. However, differential fertility rates by rural/urban residency have a marked impact on rural/urban educational inequality.</p>
<p>Chapter Two examined the role of fertility in three-generational transmission. It proposed a new moderator for the process: the fertility rates of the grandparents. Findings using data from the Panel Studies of Income Dynamics (PSID) show that having multiple children (i.e., multiple members in the parental generation) amplifies grandparents' influence on grandchildren's educational attainment.</p>
<p>Chapter Three examined the role of parents in adult children's marital sorting. It extends previous findings on first and new marriages from a life course perspective. Results using PSID data show divergent trends by gender. Parents' influence becomes less important for males but
more vital for females over the life course.</p>
<p>Chapter Four examined the role of education homogamy in intergenerational reproduction. It brought the previous one-sided analysis, which focused on one parent only, to the couple level and proposed an approach that is the first to consider and distinguish two sources—resource combination and family milieu—that generate the difference between homogamy and heterogamy. Findings using PSID data demonstrate that these two sources affect couples' probability of having children and their children's educational attainment differently, and their influences change over cohorts.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:133e69cd-820f-460c-984a-d7de81c1d3092023-03-10T09:07:09ZThe demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment ----- the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproductionThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:133e69cd-820f-460c-984a-d7de81c1d309SociologyDemographyEnglishHyrax Deposit2022Hu, HBreen, R<p>The intergenerational transmission of education examines to what extent has one generation's attainment determined the next generation's attainment. It is deemed an important indicator of social fluidity and inequality. This thesis explores the demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission, focusing on fertility and assortative mating. It includes four self-contained essays, two on fertility and two on assortative mating.</p> <p>Chapter One brought the previous individual-level inquiries on the relationship between sibship size and educational attainment to the societal level. Using the case of China, findings show that fertility decline during its One Child Policy era brought modest improvement in the average educational attainment of the country. However, differential fertility rates by rural/urban residency have a marked impact on rural/urban educational inequality.</p> <p>Chapter Two examined the role of fertility in three-generational transmission. It proposed a new moderator for the process: the fertility rates of the grandparents. Findings using data from the Panel Studies of Income Dynamics (PSID) show that having multiple children (i.e., multiple members in the parental generation) amplifies grandparents' influence on grandchildren's educational attainment.</p> <p>Chapter Three examined the role of parents in adult children's marital sorting. It extends previous findings on first and new marriages from a life course perspective. Results using PSID data show divergent trends by gender. Parents' influence becomes less important for males but more vital for females over the life course.</p> <p>Chapter Four examined the role of education homogamy in intergenerational reproduction. It brought the previous one-sided analysis, which focused on one parent only, to the couple level and proposed an approach that is the first to consider and distinguish two sources—resource combination and family milieu—that generate the difference between homogamy and heterogamy. Findings using PSID data demonstrate that these two sources affect couples' probability of having children and their children's educational attainment differently, and their influences change over cohorts.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Sociology Demography Hu, H The demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment ----- the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproduction |
| title | The demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment ----- the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproduction |
| title_full | The demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment ----- the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproduction |
| title_fullStr | The demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment ----- the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproduction |
| title_full_unstemmed | The demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment ----- the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproduction |
| title_short | The demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment ----- the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproduction |
| title_sort | demographic pathways of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment the role of fertility and assortative mating in status reproduction |
| topic | Sociology Demography |
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