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When I Was Your Age: The Intergenerational Transmission of Mothers' High School Academic Programs Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Children, School-Age; Educational Attainment; Educational Outcomes; High School Curriculum; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Associations between parents' completed educational attainments and their children's educational outcomes are important indicators of intergenerational inequalities in schooling. As Mare (2011) has noted, however, identifying the causes of parental statuses - not only their effects - is essential for clarifying how they shape children's opportunities. Since parents' total years of schooling or highest degrees received are themselves educational outcomes, examining parents' earlier educational experiences may reveal more about the ways families reproduce advantages and disadvantages. This paper adopts this perspective to estimate the causal effect of the type of academic curriculum mothers pursued in high school on the type of academic curriculum their children pursued at the same educational stage. I link mother-child pairs across the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 and its Children and Young Adult Survey, and use a marginal structural model with inverse probability of treatment weighting to estimate the causal effects. I find that a mother's pre-college educational experiences contribute significantly to the total effect of her schooling on her child's outcomes. The total effect decomposes into a direct effect and an indirect effect. The direct effect is stronger than the indirect effect, suggesting that a mother's earlier educational experiences independently influence her child's high school curriculum beyond influencing the probability she reached a certain level of schooling. These findings confirm that identifying the causes of parental attainment and the multiple pathways that connect them to children's outcomes yields insights about how families transmit advantages and disadvantages across generations. |
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Lawrence, Matthew. "When I Was Your Age: The Intergenerational Transmission of Mothers' High School Academic Programs." Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017. |