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A Transgenerational Model of Status Attainment: the Potential Mediating Role of School Motivation and Education

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  • Ingrid Schoon

    (Institute of Education, University of London, I.Schoon@ioe.ac.uk)

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This paper examines the influences of parental social status, childhood cognitive ability, school motivation and education on social status attainment in early adulthood. Using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), a pathway model of transgenerational status attainment is conceptualised, taking into account the context as well as the timing of individual status transitions. The subjects were 3104 men and 3229 women who participated in the 1958 National Child Development Study and 3049 men and 2692 women from the 1970 British Cohort Study, following their lives from childhood to their mid-thirties. The findings suggest that in both cohorts the number of years spent in full-time education is by far the most important determinant of status attainment among men and women and that there are persistent social inequalities in status attainment. The findings furthermore confirm the hypothesis that social background and cognitive ability are partially mediated through school motivation and education, opening up leverage for possible interventions.

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  • Ingrid Schoon, 2008. "A Transgenerational Model of Status Attainment: the Potential Mediating Role of School Motivation and Education," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 205(1), pages 72-82, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:niesru:v:205:y:2008:i:1:p:72-82
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    1. Franceschelli, Michela & Evans, Karen & Schoon, Ingrid, 2016. "'A fish out of water?' The therapeutic narratives of class change," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 64(3), pages 353-372.
    2. Mareckova, Jana & Pohlmeier, Winfried, 2017. "Noncognitive Skills and Labor Market Outcomes: A Machine Learning Approach," VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking 168195, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    3. Melissa Scharoun-Lee & Penny Gordon-Larsen & Linda Adair & Barry Popkin & Jay Kaufman & Chirayath Suchindran, 2011. "Intergenerational Profiles of Socioeconomic (Dis)advantage and Obesity During the Transition to Adulthood," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 48(2), pages 625-651, May.

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