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Generating Educational Inequality: Multigenerational Approaches to the Transmission of Advantage and Disadvantage Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Family Background and Culture; High School Curriculum; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Education; Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The second paper responds to Mare's (2011) call to pay attention to the causes of family background effects. I begin by conceptualizing parents' completed educational attainment as an outcome influenced by parents' high school curricula. Tracing parents' schooling experiences back reinforces the distinction Duncan made between the distribution of a status within a sample of parents and the distribution of a status within parents' generations. To account for that difference, I estimate the effect of a mother's high school academic program on her eventual attainment using probabilities calculated among all the women in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, not only those who eventually had a child in the Children and Young Adults Survey. I compare the effects of a mother's curricular type and her eventual attainment on the probability that her child would be in a college preparatory curriculum in high school. I find that the total effect of having a mother who was in a college preparatory academic program is equal to the direct effect of having a mother who completed college. Decomposing that total effect shows that a mother's earlier educational experiences matter not only because they allowed her to reach a certain level of schooling, but because they have independent "lingering effects" on her child's opportunities. |
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Lawrence, Matthew Cadogan. Generating Educational Inequality: Multigenerational Approaches to the Transmission of Advantage and Disadvantage. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 2014. |