Intergenerational transmission of women’s educational attainment in South Korea

Are daughters’ childbearing intentions related to their mothers’ socio-economic status?

“…It is also worth noting that several studies have documented a positive relation between mother's and daughter's education in different countries and periods (Kye 2011;Mare and Maralani 2006;Matras 1961).…”

Social Mobility and Demographic Behaviour: Long Term Perspectives

“…Indeed, the papers in this collection may represent the first applications of such techniques to historical data. Population renewal models like the ones employed in Kye (2011) have not yet been applied to any historical data. Clearly, application of these advanced techniques to historical data has much to offer.…”

“…The papers in this special collection that deal with the relation between fertility and social mobility all address the resource dilution hypothesis (Bras, Kok, and Mandemakers 2010;Ferrari and Dalla Zuanna 2010;Kye 2011;Van Bavel et al 2011). A study of Brazil (Marteleto 2010) was recently published in Demographic Research and also focuses on the resource dilution hypothesis but is not part of this special collection.…”

“…Much less empirical work has been done about the diachronic relationship between family size and socioeconomic attainment, even though the evolution of this relationship over time is considered very important in the theoretical literature about the fertility transition (Van Bavel 2006;Dalla Zuanna 2007). The papers in this collection by Bras, Kok, and Mandemakers (2010) and Kye (2011) are exceptions, as is Marteleto (2010). All of these papers examine changes over time in the relationship between family size in childhood and socioeconomic attainment in adulthood.…”

“…Kye (2011) examines the macro-level implications for population composition of fertility differentials by socioeconomic status. By applying a population renewal model (Mare and Maralani 2006) to combined census, birth registration, and survey data from contemporary South Korea, Kye (2011) investigates whether educational differentials in fertility and intergenerational transmission of educational status affected trends in the educational distribution of the population. He finds that differential fertility by level of education has not substantially affected the aggregate educational distribution in the population.…”