The intergenerational transmission of education. A meta-regression analysis

Fleury, Nicolas; Gilles, Fabrice

doi:10.1080/09645292.2018.1517863

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“…Additional analyses (results not presented) showed that it was primarily the inclusion of parental educational level that led to the reduction of the estimates; this is not surprising given the strong intergenerational transmission of educational outcomes. 26 27…”

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Intergenerational transmission of alcohol misuse: mediation and interaction by school performance in a Swedish birth cohort

Almquist

Bishop

Gustafsson

et al. 2020

J Epidemiol Community Health

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BackgroundChildren whose parents misuse alcohol have increased risks of own alcohol misuse in adulthood. Though most attain lower school marks, some still perform well in school, which could be an indicator of resilience with protective potential against negative health outcomes. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the processes of mediation and interaction by school performance regarding the intergenerational transmission of alcohol misuse.MethodsData were drawn from a prospective Swedish cohort study of children born in 1953 (n=14 608). Associations between parental alcohol misuse (ages 0–19) and participants’ own alcohol misuse in adulthood (ages 20–63) were examined by means of Cox regression analysis. Four-way decomposition was used to explore mediation and interaction by school performance in grade 6 (age 13), grade 9 (age 16) and grade 12 (age 19).ResultsMediation and/or interaction by school performance accounted for a substantial proportion of the association between parental alcohol misuse and own alcohol misuse in adulthood (58% for performance in grade 6, 27% for grade 9 and 30% for grade 12). Moreover, interaction effects appeared to be more important for the outcome than mediation.ConclusionAbove-average school performance among children whose parents misused alcohol seems to reflect processes of resilience with the potential to break the intergenerational transmission of alcohol misuse. Four-way decomposition offers a viable approach to disentangle processes of interaction from mediation, representing a promising avenue for future longitudinal research.

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Intergenerational transmission of alcohol misuse: mediation and interaction by school performance in a Swedish birth cohort

Almquist

Bishop

Gustafsson

et al. 2020

J Epidemiol Community Health

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“…[18]), educational attainment (e.g. [16]), and parenting behavior [1]. This continuity is also observed for criminal behavior: studies show a substantial correlation between criminal behavior of parents and their children (e.g.…”

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Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands

Dijk

Eichelsheim

Kleemans

et al. 2021

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…Informed by the existing studies on home environment variables that are likely related to risk and opportunities for children’s cognitive competency (e.g. Fleury and Gilles, 2018), we used two approaches to assess the children’s home environment. First, parents responded to 10 questions: (1) number of children at home, (2) number of children’s books at home, (3) number of times that the family ate dinner together in the past week, (4) number of days during the week that the children read at home for fun, (5) the amount of time that the child spent daily watching TV on weekday evenings, (6) the amount of time that the child spent daily online on weekdays, (7) the amount of time that the child spent daily playing on smart devices (e.g.…”

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“…The phenomenon of intergenerational transmission of education attainment from parents to children has been widely documented (e.g. Bus et al, 1995; Dong et al, 2018; Fleury and Gilles, 2018; Heineck and Riphahn, 2009). While some studies have suggested that maternal education has less impact on the offspring’s educational attainment than paternal education does (e.g.…”

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Maternal education, home environment and chinese primary school children’s academic performance: Longitudinal follow-up results

Tan¹,

Zhou³

et al. 2020

Journal of Early Childhood Research

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This paper reports a follow up analysis of longitudinal date. We (1) examined urban Chinese mothers’ occupations as a function of their educational levels, (2) tested mediating effects of home environment variables after fine-tuning key variables of maternal education and home environment by excluding data that were provided by the children’s fathers, and (3) tested if home environment variables mattered differently for academic performance in the first grade, second grade, and changes the children’s grade. Data on maternal education level (Group 1: No More than Junior High School; Group 2: High School; Group 3: At Least College), maternal occupation and 12 home environment variables were directly obtained from urban mothers in January of 2019 (Time 1; N = 231); data on academic performance were directly obtained from the children’s school in February (Time 1; N = 231) and then in October of 2019 (Time 2; N = 226). We found partial support for our earlier speculation that mothers in Group 1 and Group 2 were similarly positioned on the job market. Similar to our earlier finding, we found that children whose mothers were in Group 3 outperformed their peers in academic performance but children from the first two groups performed similarly. In both times, the link between maternal education and children’s academic performance was mediated by some home environment variables such as number of children’s books at home. However, the role of home environment variables in the link between maternal education and children’s academic performance is complex and may vary with time.

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The intergenerational transmission of education. A meta-regression analysis

Cited by 18 publications

References 36 publications

Intergenerational transmission of alcohol misuse: mediation and interaction by school performance in a Swedish birth cohort

Intergenerational transmission of alcohol misuse: mediation and interaction by school performance in a Swedish birth cohort

Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands

Maternal education, home environment and chinese primary school children’s academic performance: Longitudinal follow-up results

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