Examples of parental educational attainment in the following topics:
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- Student achievement is highly correlated with family characteristics, including household income and parental educational attainment.
- Evidence suggests that the lifetime educational possibilities of most kids are set by the time they are six years old.
- This is due to the fact that several family background characteristics are very strong predictors of future educational attainment, including parental support, parental expectations for schooling, household income, and parental educational attainment, with the last two being the most important factors.
- Researchers can actually predict a child's lifetime educational attainment by using background characteristics observed when the child is in the first grade, and these predictions turn out to be just as good, or even better, at predicting educational attainment as similar predictions based on observations made when the student is in high school.
- Examine the various factors within family background that give students an advantage in the educational realm
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- Educational attainment is tied to social class, with upper class individuals acquiring higher degrees from more prestigious schools.
- This results in, on average, 10-30% of Ivy League undergraduates being the children of alumni, meaning that high educational attainment can be passed down through generations within the upper-middle and upper classes.
- Just as education and social class are closely intertwined, stratification in education contributes to stratification in social class.
- Upper-class parents are better able to send their children not only to exclusive private schools, but also to public state-funded schools.
- Households with higher educational attainment are likely to have higher incomes than those with low educational attainment -- members of the lowest income bracket tend to have no more than a high school education, while the highest income bracket members tend to hold graduate degrees.
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- When a child who is born to parents with college degrees attains a graduate degree, this is an example of intergenerational mobility — the child achieves higher status than their parents.
- Social mobility can be intergenerational, such as when children attain a higher or lower status than their parents held.
- Relative social mobility might refer to the opportunities presented to a middle class child born in a particular area of the United States, who might be predicted to attain a college level education and a maximum income of $80,000, for example.
- Human capital refers to such individual traits as competence and work ethic, which may enable increased educational or professional attainment.
- In these countries, social standing is based on such personal attributes as educational attainment, income, and occupational prestige.
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- In some cases, social mobility is intergenerational, as when children attain a higher or lower status than their parents held.
- Relative social mobility might refer to the opportunities presented to a middle class child born in a particular area of the United States, who might be predicted to attain a college level education and a maximum income of $80,000, for example.
- Human capital refers to such individual traits as competence and work ethic, which may enable increased educational or professional attainment.
- In such countries, social standing is based on such personal attributes as educational attainment, income, and occupational prestige.
- Countries with higher intergenerational income elasticity have lower social mobility -- in countries on the left of the graph, children are likely to attain the same social status as their parents.
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- American society is stratified into social classes based on wealth, income, educational attainment, occupation, and social networks.
- An example of someone who achieves the American Dream might be a person who is born to poor parents but is smart and hardworking and eventually goes on to receive scholarships for a college education and to become a successful businessperson.
- Social classes are hierarchical groupings of individuals that are usually based on wealth, educational attainment, occupation, income, or membership in a subculture or social network.
- In the above outline of social class, status clearly depends not only on income, but also occupational prestige and educational attainment.
- While social scientists offer competing models of class structure, most agree that society is stratified by occupation, income, and educational attainment.
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- When a person born to poor parents becomes a well-educated, wealthy businessperson, this is an example of upward vertical social mobility.
- In some cases, social mobility is intergenerational, as when children attain a higher or lower status than their parents held.
- Human capital refers to such individual traits as competence and work ethic, which may enable increased educational or professional attainment.
- For example, Western capitalist countries are generally meritocratic, in which social standing is based on such personal attributes as educational attainment, income, and occupational prestige.
- Countries with higher intergenerational income elasticity have lower social mobility -- in countries on the left of the graph, children are likely to attain the same social status as their parents.
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- As of 2003, one's level of educational attainment was a significant predictor of the educational attainment of one's spouse.
- People without a high school diploma are unlikely to marry someone with more educational attainment, and people with a college degree are likely to marry people with a similar level of educational attainment.
- Part of the reason why education is so influential in determining the level of education of one's spouse is because people tend to form groups based on levels of education.
- But jobs after one completes his/her education also tend to be grouped by level of education.
- As a result, people spend more time with individuals of a similar level of educational attainment.
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- ., educational attainment is strongly correlated to income and occupation, and therefore to social class.
- This disparity can be attributed to the greater educational attainment of professors, who hold doctorate degrees.
- In the U.S., income is strongly related to educational attainment.
- Although the incomes of both men and women are associated with higher educational attainment (higher incomes for higher educational attainment), there remains an income gap between races and genders at each educational level.
- The more education a person attains, the more likely they are to be employed in high paying occupations.
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- As women disproportionately earn less income than men, they are deprived of basic education and healthcare, which lowers their lifetime earning potential.
- The responsibilities associated with motherhood further limit women's economic attainment.
- Lone mother households, or households without a second parent or guardian, are the households with the highest risk of poverty.
- Countries with strong gender discrimination and social hierarchies limit women's access to basic education.
- Even within the household, girls' education is often sacrificed to allow male siblings to attend school.
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- One of the strongest predictors of fertility rates is women's educational attainment.
- Almost universally, higher levels of educational attainment result in lower fertility rates.
- Instead, children are an economic liability, meaning they cost money while not generating money for the parents.
- That cost goes up if parents pay for a child's college education, which averages between $12,000 and $30,000.
- According to recent research, one of the best predictors of longevity (i.e., a long life) is education, even when other factors are controlled: the more educated you are, the longer you can expect to live.