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Capital for College: Parental Assets and Postsecondary Schooling

Conley, Dalton·2001·Sociology of Education
DOI 10.2307/2673145
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This article argues that traditional models of educational attainment have neglected a substantial portion of the economic resources available to parents to facilitate their children's success in schooling: wealth. In multigenerational analyses of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, it demonstrates that parental wealth, as measured by net worth, has a strong, nonlinear effect on the postsecondary schooling of offspring-net of income and other measures of socioeconomic background. Logistic regression models show that parental wealth is a strong predictor of enrollment in college and may affect the completion of college (attaining a bachelor's degree) but is not significant for the transition to graduate school. A comparison of models in which wealth is converted into an income stream and then added to annual income and models in which the effects of parental income and net worth are estimated separately indicates that wealth has properties that are analytically distinct from income

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Authors
Conley, D.
Affiliations
New York University (US)
Corresponding author
Conley, Dalton
ORCID
Conley, Dalton
Venue
Sociology of Education
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
2001-01
Volume
74
Issue
1
Pages
59
ISSN
0038-0407 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/2673145
OpenAlex
W2061008715
Cited by
325
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 21
FWCI
12.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Sociology of Education (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Cultural Capital and Social Class
Keywords
parental wealth, net worth, college enrollment, college completion, graduate school, educational attainment, parental income, intergenerational transmission, Panel Study of Income Dynamics

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