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Klein, Markus ORCID: 0000-0003-1195-8938 and Kuehhirt, Michael (2021). Direct and Indirect Effects of Grandparent Education on Grandchildren's Cognitive Development: The Role of Parental Cognitive Ability. Sociol. Sci., 8. S. 265 - 285. STANFORD: SOC SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE. ISSN 2330-6696

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Abstract

The social stratification literature is inconclusive about whether there is a direct effect of grandparent resources on grandchildren's educational outcomes net of parental characteristics. Some of this heterogeneity may be due to differences in omitted variable bias at the parental level. Our article accounts for a more extensive set of parent characteristics and explores the mediating role of parental cognitive ability in more detail. It further tackles methodological challenges (treatment-induced mediator-outcome confounders, treatment-mediator interaction) in assessing any direct influences of grandparents by using a regression-with-residuals approach. Using the 1970 British Cohort Study, our results show that the direct effect of grandparent education on grandchildren's verbal and numerical ability is small and statistically nonsignificant. Parental cognitive ability alone can account for more than two-thirds (numerical ability) or half (verbal ability) of the overall grandparent effect. These findings stress the importance of cognitive ability for intergenerational social mobility processes.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Klein, Markus UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1195-8938 UNSPECIFIED Kuehhirt, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-578594
DOI:	10.15195/v8.a13
Journal or Publication Title:	Sociol. Sci.
Volume:	8
Page Range:	S. 265 - 285
Date:	2021
Publisher:	SOC SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	STANFORD
ISSN:	2330-6696
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language 3 GENERATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC GRADIENT; SOCIAL-STRATIFICATION; CHILD OUTCOMES; FAMILY; TRANSMISSION; ATTAINMENT; EQUALIZATION; INEQUALITY; ADVANTAGE Multiple languages Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57859