Changing Roles of Parental Economic Resources in Children's Educational Attainment

Citizenship acquisition is often viewed as an indicator of immigrant integration as well as an event that spurs integration further. Relatively little is know about the relationship between citizenship and integration for children of immigrants. This article examines the relationship between citizenship and educational attainment at approximately age 16 in Finland using register data. Results suggest that children of immigrants who are Finnish citizens have better educational outcomes than non-citizens, measured with three indicators of educational attainment. However, the Finnish citizens come from families with higher levels of educational and economic resources than non-citizens and this explains much of the relationship between citizenship and education. After controlling for intervening variables, second generation students with Finnish citizenship are found to be more likely to choose general rather than vocational upper secondary education compared to their peers who have another citizenship. It is argued that this reflects a difference in educational attitudes between the two groups.

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Social origins, cognitive ability, educational attainment and Social Class Position in Britain: A birth cohort and life-course perspective

10.31235/osf.io/wtxn6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Erzsebet Bukodi ◽

Mollie Bourne ◽

Bastian Andreas Betthäuser ◽

John H Goldthorpe

Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Cognitive Ability ◽

Early Stage ◽

Life Course Perspective ◽

Economic Resources ◽

Educational Resources ◽

Educational Success ◽

Social Origins ◽

The Difference ◽

Training Programmes

The aim of this Summary Report is to show how social origins, when viewed in a comprehensive, multidimensional way, affect the educational and labour market attainments of individuals whose cognitive ability at a relatively early stage in their educational histories is at a similar level. The main findings of the report are: (1) Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success, depending on their parents’ economic, socio-cultural and educational resources; (2) For children born in the early 1990s, parents’ economic resources are somewhat less important while parents’ socio-cultural and educational resources are more important in affecting their educational attainment than for children born in the late 1950s or the early 1970s; (3) About half of the difference in educational attainment between children from advantaged and disadvantaged parental backgrounds is due to a difference in their cognitive ability, while the other half is due to other factors. (4) Obtaining formal qualifications is only one channel for upward mobility for high- ability individuals of disadvantaged backgrounds; there are other channels that are more directly related to cognitive ability, such as job training programmes, promotions or becoming self-employed in higher-level occupations.

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Mothers' Income and Young Adult Children's Education and Fast Food Intake

American Journal of Health Behavior ◽

10.5993/ajhb.44.5.11 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (5) ◽

pp. 681-690

Author(s):

Jaewon Lee ◽

Jennifer Allen

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Young Adult ◽

Educational Attainment ◽

Food Consumption ◽

Fast Food ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

Economic Resources ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Fast Food Consumption ◽

The Relationship

Objectives: In this study, we examine young adult children's educational attainment as a mediator in the pathway from their mother's income to their fast food consumption. Methods: The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 for Children and Young Adults (NLSY79 CY) were used to select mother and children dyads. A total of 5140 dyads were selected as the final sample. We used a mediation model to test mediators in the relationship between mother's income and young adult children's fast food consumption. Results: Mother's income was significantly related to their young adult children's educational attainment. Mother's income was negatively related to fast food consumption. This study revealed partial mediation of the relationship between mother's income and their young adult children's fast food consumption via their young adult children's educational attainment. Conclusions: A new perspective considering mother's economic resources is needed to understand children's education. Mother's income is important to cultivate their young adult children's health behaviors. The intergenerational transmission of mother's economic resources to their young adult children's educational attainment should be considered to understand young adults' fast food consumption.

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Educational Pairings and Fertility Across Europe: How Do the Low-Educated Fare?

Comparative Population Studies ◽

10.12765/cpos-2021-19 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

Author(s):

Natalie Nitsche ◽

Anna Matysiak ◽

Jan Van Bavel ◽

Daniele Vignoli

Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Family Formation ◽

Economic Resources ◽

Transition Rates ◽

Resource Pooling ◽

Highly Educated ◽

Research Gap ◽

Using Data ◽

Low Educated ◽

The Eu

Recent research suggests that the fertility-education relationship may be mediated by the educational attainment of the partner, especially among the tertiary-educated. However, there are no studies focusing on the couple-education-fertility nexus among couples who achieved only basic educational attainment, even though resource pooling theory predicts differences in family formation by couples’ joint levels of socio-economic resources. We address this research gap and investigate how educational pairings among married and cohabiting partners relate to second and third birth transitions across 22 European countries, using data from the EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) panel and discrete time event history models. Our findings show significantly lower second and third birth transition rates among homogamous low-educated couples compared to heterogamous couples with one low- and one medium or highly-educated partner in the Nordic countries, but not across the rest of Europe. However, couples with one or two low-educated partners have significantly lower second birth rates compared with couples with two highly-educated partners in all European regions.

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