The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends

Hertz, Tom; Jayasundera, Tamara; Piraino, Patrizio; Selcuk, Sibel; Smith, Nicole; Verashchagina, Alina

doi:10.2202/1935-1682.1775

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“…Solon, 2002;Corak, 2006;Oreopoulos, 2003;Nicoletti and Ermisch, 2007), and b) educational attainment (e.g. Hertz et al, 2007;Heineck and Riphahn, 2008). Complementing that, there is a separate albeit small economic literature which examines whether it is the transmission of cognitive abilities that drives intergenerational correlation patterns (Agee and Crocker, 2002;Bowles and Gintis, 2002;Blanden et al, 2007;Black et al, 2008).…”

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Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities

2009

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany, sanger@diw.de, Tel: +49-30-89789-526, Fax: +49-30-89789-109 b Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Weddigenstr. 20-22, 90478 Nuremberg, Germany, guido.heineck@iab.de, Tel: +49-911-179-3105, Fax: +49-911-179-1479 ABSTRACTComplementing prior research on income mobility and educational transmission, we provide evidence on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our estimates suggest that individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to the abilities of their parents, even when educational attainment and family background is controlled for. We differentiate between mothers' and fathers' IQ transmission and find different effects on the cognition of sons and daughters. We show that cognitive skills which are based on past learning are more strongly transmitted from parents to children than cognitive skills which are related to innate abilities. Our findings are not compatible with a pure genetic model, but rather point to the importance of parental investments for the cognitive outcomes of children. JEL:J10, J24, I20

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Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities

2009

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“…Additionally, Hertz et al (2007) show that, in recent decades, this secular increase has tended to occur at a decreasing rate, so changes over time in the correlation tend to be more positive (or less negative) than changes in the regression coefficient. Reporting both measures seems a sensible solution.…”

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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Black

Devereux

2011

Handbook of Labor Economics

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“…Research on social stratification has established that parents pass down educational advantage or disadvantage to children in any country for which data exist (Hertz et al 2007). To explain how this transmission occurs, scholars have particularly focused on the role of socialization practices (Lareau 2002), parenting styles (Roksa and Potter 2011), cultural, social and economic capital (Bourdieu and Passeron 1970), and parents' decisions regarding educational transitions and trajectories of their children (Boudon 1974).…”

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Can children break the cycle of disadvantage? Structure and agency in the transmission of education across generations

Burger

Walk

2016

Soc Psychol Educ

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Research has shown that parents tend to pass educational advantage or disadvantage on to their children. However, little is known about the extent to which the intergenerational transmission of education involves children's agency. In this study we drew from two traditions in sociological and social psychological theorizing -the theory of cultural and social reproduction and the theory of human agency -to examine whether agency influences children's educational performance, and if so, whether this influence can be observed among children across social classes. We used data from the Spanish sample of the Program for International Student Assessment (N = 25,003 15-year-olds). Results indicate that the level of child agency was weakly positively related to social class, that child agency impacted on a child's educational performance, and that the positive effect of agency on educational performance did not vary by social class. This suggests that strategies to enhance disadvantaged children's agency may prove useful in reducing social gradients in educational performance. More generally, our findings may ignite a debate about the role that social structure and human agency play in shaping social inequality and mobility.

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The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends

Cited by 458 publications

References 31 publications

Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities

Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities

Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Can children break the cycle of disadvantage? Structure and agency in the transmission of education across generations

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