Class origin, family culture, and intergenerational correlation of education in rural china
By: by Hiroshi Sato, Shi Li.
Contributors: Li, Shi.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2642; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2642
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Educational attainment -- China.; Social status -- China.; China -- Rural conditions.
Description: "This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from a large survey of households. Three generations who completed education during the period from pre-1949 to the beginning of the 2000s are included. The focus is on the influence of family class status (chengfen) on offspring education. Our investigation suggests that family class status is still important for the intergenerational transmission of education. The offspring of landlord/rich peasant families are more likely to achieve higher educational attainment, even though parental education, family wealth, and other family characteristics are the same. The unique determinant of the intergenerational transmission of education in the postreform era is found to be an education-oriented family culture, created as an intergenerational cultural rebound against class-based social discrimination during the Maoist era. We have also found that the cultural reaction is a combination of class-specific effects with cohort-specific effects"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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