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The Production of Inequalities within Families and across Generations : The Intergenerational Effects of Birth Order on Educational Attainment
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- Barclay, Kieron (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Stockholms universitet,Sociologiska institutionen,Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Sweden; Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany,Kollegiet för avancerade studier (SCAS),Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research , 18057 Rostock, Germany
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- Lyngstad, Torkild H. (författare)
- Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
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- Conley, Dalton C. (författare)
- Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; National Bureau for Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- 2021-03-03
- 2021
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: European Sociological Review. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0266-7215 .- 1468-2672. ; 37:4, s. 607-625
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Abstract
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- There has long been interest in the extent to which effects of social stratification extend and persist across generations. We take a novel approach to this question by asking whether birth order in the parental generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question, we use Swedish population data on cohorts born 1960–1982. To study the effects of parental birth order, we use cousin fixed effects comparisons. In analyses where we compare cousins who share the same biological grandparents to adjust for unobserved factors in the extended family, we find that having a later-born parent reduces educational attainment to a small extent. For example, a second- or fifth-born mother reduces educational attainment by 0.09 and 0.18 years, respectively, while having a second- or fifth-born father reduces educational attainment by 0.04 and 0.11 years, respectively. After adjusting for attained parental education and social class, the parental birth order effect is practically attenuated to zero. Overall our results suggest that parental birth order influences offspring educational and socioeconomic outcomes through the parents own educational and socioeconomic attainment. We cautiously suggest that parental birth order may have potential as an instrument for parental socioeconomic status in social stratification research more generally.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
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- Sociology
- sociologi
- Sociologi
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