The intergenerational transmission of social advantage and disadvantage: comprehensive evidence on the association of parents’ and children’s educational attainments, class, earnings, and status

In recent years, multidimensional conceptualizations of social origin have become increasingsly common in stratification research. We provide evidence on the associations between four measures, parents’ class, status, earnings and education one hand corresponding offspring measures other. also extend previous research differences effects at different levels children’s educational attainment compare predictive power with regard to top bottom attainments all outcome variables. use Norwegian administrative data for nearly 500,000 individuals born 1961 1970. The analyses show that is a much stronger predictor outcomes than are their class status positions – both taken separately together. Parental outperforms earnings, except when variable earnings. Thus, premarket characteristics seem be more important labour market achievements outcomes. A second major finding origins often quite similar advantaged disadvantaged However, less strongly associated