Effects of extended family members on children’s educational attainment

A focus on the diverse effects of grandparents, uncles, and aunts

ARAMAKI Sohei
(Kyushu University)

A Quantitative Picture of Contemporary Japanese Families: Tradition and Modernity in the 21st Century (Tohoku University Press) (2013-03-28)

Title: Effects of extended family members on children’s educational attainment: A focus on the diverse effects of grandparents, uncles, and aunts
Author: ARAMAKI Sohei (荒牧草平)
Page: 299–319
Short URL: http://tsigeto.info/qfam/book/12

Book Title: A Quantitative Picture of Contemporary Japanese Families: Tradition and Modernity in the 21st Century
Editor: TANAKA Sigeto
Publisher: Tohoku University Press
Date: 2013-03
Language: English
ISBN: 978-4-86163-226-6
NCID: BB12087266
Price: 4,200 yen
Total Pages: xi+375

Abstract

Chapter 12.

1. Introduction

1.1. Educational attainment and “family”
1.2. Why study extended family effects?

2. Data and variables

2.1. Data
2.2. Distribution of educational attainment
2.3. Limitations and treatment related to educational attainment variables
- Children’s educational attainment
- Parents’ educational attainment
- Grandparents’educational attainment
- Uncles’ and aunts’ educational attainment

3. Results

3.1. Direct effects of grandparents
3.2. Direct effects of aunts and uncles
3.3. Logistic regression analysis
3.4. Diversity of the relationships based on children’s birth orders and paternal/maternal distinctions

4. Discussion

Keywords

children’s educational attainment
effects of extended family members’ educational attainment
educational attainment of grandparents
educational attainment of uncles
direct effects

Tables

Table 1. Distribution of education levels of each family member.
Table 2. Positive and negative effects of uncles and aunts.
Table 3. Results of logistic regression analysis

Figures

Figure 1. Information related to extended family members included in NFRJ08. Effects of extended family members on children’s educational attainment attainment. In comparison with other survey, such a
Figure 2. Disstribution of education levels of each family member.
Figure 3. Construction of uncles and aunts.
Figure 4. Percentage of higher-educated children based on grandparents’ education, net of parents’ education.
Figure 5. Percentage of higher-educated children based on grandparents’ education, net of parents’ education. [ERRATA]
Figure 6. Gamma coefficients between children and extended family members by chil-dren’s birth order and paternal/maternal distinctions of extended fam-ily members.

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Note

The data for this secondary analysis, National Family Research of Japan 2008 {NFRJ08} by the NFRJ Committee, Japan Society of Family Sociology, was provided by the Social Science Japan Data Archive, Center for Social Research and Data Archives, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

Earlier versions of this chapter were published as Japanese papers in the NFRJ08 Second Report (稲葉昭英・保田時男編, 2011, 『階層・ネットワーク』日本家族社会学会全国家族調査委員会, 45–60 {nfrj:nfrj08_201104_3}), and in the Japanese Journal of Family Sociology, 24(1):84–94 (2012) {DOI:10.4234/jjoffamilysociology.24.84}.

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI {kaken:24531069}.

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