Memo 3 Research Seminar in the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Yue Long 12/11/16
Greg’s lecture on “Parental Socioeconomic Status and Sibling Educational Inequality in the United States” investigates the effect of the type of families on uniformity in sibling educations. This project is akin to comparative national welfare-state analysis and the analysis considered a set of factors including parents and siblings’ socio-economics status.
This topic on sibling inequality remained a concern for the world, as it was often associated with negative consequences like conflicts, social distance, poor health, and lowered expectations. In this project, equality was measured by similar educational outcomes instead of “equality of opportunity” to receive …show more content…
Siblings from high-SES families will be more unequal than siblings from low-SES families.
2. Siblings from high-SES families will have the same level of inequality as siblings from low-SES families.
3. Siblings from low-SES families will be more unequal than siblings from high-SES families. Results using OLS regression indicated that the third hypothesis was the most supported. Siblings from poor families were more unequal than those from richer families. And as parental class increased, sibling inequality shrunk. Moreover, the study also indicated that educationally unequal parents passed the inequality that they experienced along to their children.
Besides the hypothesis on the relationship between sibling inequality and SES, the study proposed two other hypotheses related to the size of the family: 4. Siblings from large families will be more unequal than siblings from smaller ones. 5. Siblings from small families will be more unequal than siblings from large ones. The result of OLS regression revealed that the first hypothesis was supported. A large family was more like a “microcosm” of the larger society where inequality was much more prevalent than in a small
Yue Long 12/11/16
Greg’s lecture on “Parental Socioeconomic Status and Sibling Educational Inequality in the United States” investigates the effect of the type of families on uniformity in sibling educations. This project is akin to comparative national welfare-state analysis and the analysis considered a set of factors including parents and siblings’ socio-economics status.
This topic on sibling inequality remained a concern for the world, as it was often associated with negative consequences like conflicts, social distance, poor health, and lowered expectations. In this project, equality was measured by similar educational outcomes instead of “equality of opportunity” to receive …show more content…
Siblings from high-SES families will be more unequal than siblings from low-SES families.
2. Siblings from high-SES families will have the same level of inequality as siblings from low-SES families.
3. Siblings from low-SES families will be more unequal than siblings from high-SES families. Results using OLS regression indicated that the third hypothesis was the most supported. Siblings from poor families were more unequal than those from richer families. And as parental class increased, sibling inequality shrunk. Moreover, the study also indicated that educationally unequal parents passed the inequality that they experienced along to their children.
Besides the hypothesis on the relationship between sibling inequality and SES, the study proposed two other hypotheses related to the size of the family: 4. Siblings from large families will be more unequal than siblings from smaller ones. 5. Siblings from small families will be more unequal than siblings from large ones. The result of OLS regression revealed that the first hypothesis was supported. A large family was more like a “microcosm” of the larger society where inequality was much more prevalent than in a small