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Do grandparents matter? A multigenerational perspective on educational attainment in Taiwan

Chiang, Yi-Lin, Park, Hyunjoon·2015·Social Science Research
DOI 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.09.013
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In response to the growing interest in multigenerational effects, we investigate whether grandparents' education affects grandchildren's transitions to academic high school and university in Taiwan. Drawing on social capital literature, we consider potential heterogeneity of the grandparent effect by parents' characteristics and propose that grandparents' education yields differential effects depending on parents' education. Our results show tenuous effects of grandmother's and grandfather's years of schooling, net of parents' education. However, the positive interaction effects between grandparents' and parents' years of schooling indicate that grandparents' additional years of schooling are more beneficial to students with more educated parents than for students with less educated parents. The diverging gap in the likelihood of attending academic high school or university between students with parents in higher and lower ends of the educational hierarchy, along with increased levels of grandparents' education, supports our hypothesis that grandparents' education augments educational inequality by parents' education.

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  • The coefficient on grandparent's education tends to be smaller when controlling for both paternal and maternal education.

    “Consistent with this interpretation, the coefficient β gp on grandparent's education tends to be smaller when controlling for both paternal and maternal education (e.g.,Warren and Hauser 1997, Chiang and Park 2015, Braun and Stuhler 2018, Engzell, Mood, and Jonsson 2020).”

    From Educational Inequality* (2022) · cites this paper as Chiang and Park 2015

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Authors
Chiang, Y.-L., & Park, H.
Affiliations
University of Pennsylvania (US)
Corresponding author
Chiang, Yi-Lin
ORCID
Venue
Social Science Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-05
Volume
51
Pages
163-173
ISSN
0049-089X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.09.013
OpenAlex
W2070048739
Cited by
51
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 5
FWCI
8.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Social Science Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Academy of Korean Studies
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Parental Involvement in Education
Keywords
grandparent education, educational attainment, intergenerational transmission, multigenerational effects, social capital, educational inequality, college enrollment, parental education, Taiwan
MeSH terms
Grandparents, Adolescent, Child, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Male, Parents, Taiwan, Intergenerational Relations

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