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Title: Scholarly Culture and Educational Attainment

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between ancestral scholarly culture and educational attainment by examining second-generation immigrants in the United States. The cultural value placed on education is proxied by average educational attainment among the adult population in the second generation's country of ancestry. The cultural proxy shows significant correlation with the second generation's educational attainment: given the same family background,market and institutions, higher cultural values on education predicts more years of schooling of the second generation, and this correlation is stronger among males than females. The paper also finds a weaker correlation between paternal scholarly culture and offspring's educational attainment when the mother is from another culture. Maternal scholarly culture is verified to be important, whereas the relevance of paternal culture is more salient than that of maternal culture, especially among the second-generation males.

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Authors: Zhan, Yi

Publisher: University of California, San Diego

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Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration

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