scholarly journals The Generational Boundaries of Educational Advantage: Does Great-Grandparent Educational Attainment Predict Great-Grandchild Early Academic Achievement?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110605
Author(s):  
Megan Evans ◽  
Jonathan Daw ◽  
S. Michael Gaddis
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Direct Transmission ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Educational Attainments ◽  
Early Academic Achievement ◽  
The Relationship

It remains unclear how far back the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage operates because most inquiries are limited to two or three generations. In this study, the authors use four generations of family data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the association of great-grandparents’ educational attainment with their great-grandchildren’s early academic achievement, net of intervening generations’ educational attainments. The authors find that the relationship between great-grandparent educational attainment and great-grandchild early academic achievement is nonlinear, modest, and accounted for entirely by the educational attainment of intervening generations and great-grandchild demographic characteristics. Thus, for early academic achievement, the direct transmission of intergenerational educational advantage is limited to three generations in these data.

scholarly journals Women’s Educational Attainment and Fertility in the United States among Generation Xers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Zang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Total Fertility Rate ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Attainments ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
College Educated ◽  
Generation Xers

This study is the first to systematically examine the educational differentials in fertility levels and timing across four 5-year cohorts among Generation Xers in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the relationship between U.S. women’s educational attainments and fertility behaviors among those born after 1960 by previous studies. Results reveal that the cohort Total Fertility Rate among college graduates is lower than those of the less educated. However, there is evidence of an emerging trend: an increasing proportion of college-educated women with two children have transitioned to a third. Although college-educated women postpone first births, they tend to ‘catch up’ by spacing higher-order births closer to first births compared to the less-educated.

The mediating role of cognitive ability on the relationship between motor proficiency and early academic achievement in children

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 149-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geneviève Cadoret ◽  
Nathalie Bigras ◽  
Stéphanie Duval ◽  
Lise Lemay ◽  
Tania Tremblay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Motor Proficiency ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Early Academic Achievement ◽  
The Relationship

Exposure to Food Insecurity during Adolescence and Educational Attainment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Heflin ◽  
Rajeev Darolia ◽  
Sharon Kukla-Acevedo
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
College Attendance ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Lower Educational Attainment

Abstract Previous research has documented the negative consequences of exposure to food insecurity over the early childhood period in terms of health and cognitive and behavioral outcomes, but less research has explored the consequences of exposure to food insecurity at other points in childhood. We examine the association between food insecurity during adolescence and educational attainment. We begin by exploring a conceptual framework for the potential mechanisms that might lead adolescents who experience food insecurity to have differential educational outcomes. Then, we use descriptive and regression analysis to see whether food insecurity is associated with lower educational attainment using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Transition to Adulthood Survey. We find that exposure to food insecurity during adolescence predicts lower levels of educational attainment by reducing college attendance.

scholarly journals Data Watch: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Brown ◽  
Greg J Duncan ◽  
Frank P Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Poverty Dynamics ◽  
Job Tenure ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Family Behavior

By collecting annual economic and demographic information from a large and representative sample of U.S. households for over a quarter century, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics has compiled a remarkably useful set of microdata. This article describes the PSID and how its unique longitudinal and, in some cases, intergenerational features have been used for studies of intertemporal models of labor supply; wages, employment, and job tenure; consumption; poverty dynamics; extended-family behavior; and the intergenerational transmission of economic status.

Antecedents and Correlates of Adolescent Employment: Race as a Moderator of Psychological Predictors

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 871-893
Author(s):  
Vonnie C. McLoyd ◽  
Samantha K. Hallman
Keyword(s):  
Panel Study ◽  
Educational Expectations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Work Intensity ◽  
Adolescent Employment ◽  
Community Factors ◽  
Work Duration ◽  
Selection Factors ◽  
The Relationship

Adolescent employment during high school has become the norm in the United States, but studies of associated outcomes have yielded mixed results. These discrepant findings may be partly attributable to study methods, including differences in how adolescent employment is measured and how selection factors are taken into account. The present study, based on data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, aims to continue untangling these complexities by (a) examining whether the strength of theoretical predictors varies when predictors are assessed in a comprehensive model that simultaneously controls several psychological, family, and community factors; (b) determining whether the strength of predictors varies depending on how adolescent employment is measured (work status, work duration, and work intensity); and (c) assessing whether race moderates some of these relationships. Results indicate differences in how each predictor is related to each dimension of adolescent employment, as well as a moderating effect of race on the relationship between educational expectations and number of hours adolescents worked each week.

scholarly journals The intergenerational transmission of loneliness between parents and their adult children

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Lara Augustijn
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: This study examined the relationship between loneliness in parents and in their adult children, and took into account the role of gender differences in the intergenerational transmission of loneliness. Background: Although it is well documented that loneliness has negative effects on a person’s physical and mental health, only a relatively small number of empirical studies have investigated the intergenerational transmission of loneliness between parents and their children, including the potential long-term effects of transmission processes. Moreover, the findings of the few existing studies have been inconsistent and contradictory, particularly with regard to gender differences. Method: The statistical analysis drew on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Based on data from 2013 and 2017, stepwise multilevel linear regression models were estimated for 4,457 respondents between the ages of 18 and 40 and their parents. Results: Significant associations were found between loneliness in parents and in their adult children. The analysis also revealed that the relationship between loneliness in mothers and in their children did not depend on whether mothers and children were living in the same household. However, no significant differences were found between same-sex and opposite-sex parent-child dyads. Conclusion: This study provided moderate evidence for the intergenerational transmission of loneliness between parents and their adult children, as well as indirect evidence for the long-term effects of transmission processes between mothers and children.

scholarly journals Intergenerational transmission of education and ADHD: Effects of parental genotypes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eveline L. de Zeeuw ◽  
Jouke-Jan Hottenga ◽  
Klaasjan G. Ouwens ◽  
Conor V. Dolan ◽  
Erik A. Ehli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Genetic Effects ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Adhd Symptoms ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Parent Characteristics ◽  
Novel Design ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission Of Education

AbstractIt is challenging to study whether children resemble their parents due to nature, nurture, or a mixture of both. Here we used a novel design that employs the fact that parents transmit 50% of their alleles to their offspring. The combined effect of these transmitted and non-transmitted alleles on a trait are summarized in a polygenic score (PGS). The non-transmitted PGS can only affect offspring through the environment, via genetically influenced behaviours in the parents, called genetic nurturing. For genotyped mother-father-offspring trios (1,120-2,518 per analysis) we calculated transmitted and non-transmitted PGSs for adult educational attainment (EA) and childhood ADHD and tested if these predicted outcomes in offspring. In adults, both transmitted (R2= 7.6%) and non-transmitted (R2= 1.7%) EA PGSs predicted offspring EA, evidencing genetic nurturing. In children around age 12, academic achievement was predicted only by transmitted EA PGSs (R2= 5.7%), but we did not find genetic nurturing (R2∼ 0.1%). The ADHD PGSs did not significantly predict academic achievement (R2∼ 0.6%). ADHD symptoms in children were predicted by transmitted EA PGSs and ADHD PGSs (R2= 1-2%). Based on these results, we conclude that previously reported associations between parent characteristics and offspring outcomes seem to be mainly a marker of genetic effects shared by parents and children.

scholarly journals Giving In A Time Of Terrorism

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter O. Simmons ◽  
Rosemarie Emanuele
Keyword(s):  
Panel Study ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

Recent research in psychology suggest that altruism and altruistic decisions may, in fact, be endogenous and depend on the social situation in which people find themselves. People are more likely to be altruistic, to give to charities and others in need, when they feel secure and safe. This paper looks at the implications of a persons perceived state of security on giving now that there are terrorist threats in the U.S. We use data from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (the PSID) to test for endogenous changes in giving and volunteering from before and after the 2001 terrorist attacks. We find evidence indicating that increasing uncertainty resulted in a decline in the giving of both money and time, holding other variables constant, but the relationship is not significant.

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