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Family scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations

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dc.contributor.authorEvans, M.D.R.
dc.contributor.authorKelley, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorSikora, Joanna
dc.contributor.authorTreiman, Donald
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:19:06Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T10:34:03Z
dc.description.abstractChildren growing up in homes with many books get 3 years more schooling than children from bookless homes, independent of their parents' education, occupation, and class. This is as great an advantage as having university educated rather than unschooled parents, and twice the advantage of having a professional rather than an unskilled father. It holds equally in rich nations and in poor; in the past and in the present; under Communism, capitalism, and Apartheid; and most strongly in China. Data are from representative national samples in 27 nations, with over 70,000 cases, analyzed using multi-level linear and probit models with multiple imputation of missing data.
dc.identifier.issn0276-5624
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/19165
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.sourceResearch in Social Stratification and Mobility
dc.subjectKeywords: Books; Cross-national; Cultural capital; Culture; Education; Elite closure; Home literacy environment; Scholarly culture; Schooling; Social stratification
dc.titleFamily scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage197
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage171
local.contributor.affiliationEvans, M.D.R., University of Nevada
local.contributor.affiliationKelley, Jonathan, University of Nevada
local.contributor.affiliationSikora, Joanna, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationTreiman, Donald, University of California
local.contributor.authoruidSikora, Joanna, u4065292
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160899 - Sociology not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4065292xPUB7
local.identifier.citationvolume28
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.rssm.2010.01.002
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-77952377046
local.identifier.thomsonID000208746000003
local.type.statusPublished Version

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