STEM education

Y Xie, M Fang, K Shauman - Annual review of sociology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially
for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's …

[PDF][PDF] Grandparent effects on educational outcomes: a systematic review

LR Anderson, P Sheppard… - Sociological …, 2018 - sociologicalscience.com
Are educational outcomes subject to a'grandparent effect'? We comprehensively and
critically review the growing literature on this question. Fifty-eight percent of 69 analyses …

Generations of advantage. Multigenerational correlations in family wealth

FT Pfeffer, A Killewald - Social Forces, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Inequality in family wealth is high, yet we know little about how much and how wealth
inequality is maintained across generations. We argue that a long-term perspective …

Grand advantage: Family wealth and grandchildren's educational achievement in Sweden

M Hällsten, FT Pfeffer - American Sociological Review, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel
Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' …

Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance: Evidence from multiple generations

A Adermon, M Lindahl, D Waldenström - The Economic Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This study estimates intergenerational wealth correlations across up to four generations and
examines the degree to which the wealth association between parents and children can be …

The effects of grandparents on children's schooling: Evidence from rural China

Z Zeng, Y Xie - Demography, 2014 - Springer
The issue of whether the social class of grandparents affects grandchildren's socioeconomic
outcomes net of the characteristics of the middle generation is much debated in the social …

Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations

M Lindahl, M Palme, SS Massih… - Journal of Human …, 2015 - jhr.uwpress.org
Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to
two generations: how parents influence their children. In this study, we use a Swedish data …

Educated preferences or selection effects? A longitudinal analysis of the impact of educational attainment on attitudes towards immigrants

B Lancee, O Sarrasin - European Sociological Review, 2015 - academic.oup.com
While previous studies unequivocally show that education and attitudes towards immigrants
correlate, the underlying mechanisms remain debated. The liberalization effect claims that …

What do we know so far about multigenerational mobility?

G Solon - The Economic Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Multigenerational mobility'refers to the associations in socio‐economic status
across three or more generations. This article begins by summarising the long‐standing but …

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

S Møllegaard, MM Jæger - Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …