The effect of grandparents' economic, cultural, and social capital on grandchildren's educational success

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作者
Miallegaard, Stine [1 ,2 ]
Jaeger, Mads Meier [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Danish Natl Ctr Social Res, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, DK-1052 Copenhagen K, Denmark
[2] Univ Copenhagen, Dept Sociol, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark
关键词
Multigenerational effects; Educational success; Economic capital; Cultural capital; Social capital; EXTENDED FAMILY; 3; GENERATIONS; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION; MOBILITY; ATTAINMENT; INEQUALITY; OUTCOMES; MODELS;
D O I
10.1016/j.rssm.2015.06.004
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
This paper analyzes the effects of grandparents' economic, cultural, and social capital on grandchildren's educational success. We analyze data from Denmark and hypothesize that grandparents' economic capital should be of little importance in the Scandinavian context, while their cultural and social capital should be relatively more important. Our results partly confirm these hypotheses since, after controlling for parents' capital, we find that grandparents' cultural capital (but not their economic and social capital) has a positive effect on the likelihood that grandchildren choose the academic track in upper secondary education over all other tracks. These results suggest, at least in the Scandinavian context, that the ways in which grandparents affect grandchildren's educational success is via transmission of non-economic resources. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons,org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4,0/).
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页数:9
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