Parental socioeconomic background predicts a five-year schooling gap across the distribution

Evidence

If we define socioeconomic background by a weighted sum of income, occupation, and educational level of the parents, a child from the ninetieth percentile may expect, on the average, five more years of schooling than a child in the tenth percentile. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 411

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 4 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Hierarchy transmits class-differentiated consciousness through families, constraining schools.; Schooling attainment depends on family background as much today as fifty years ago — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 438; College graduation dependence on social background has not declined over generations — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 437 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• College graduation dependence on social background has not declined over generations #corroborates (0.90) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 437
• Schooling attainment depends on family background as much today as fifty years ago #corroborates (0.85) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 438
• Class-based educational inequality persists almost unchanged when IQ is held constant #expands (0.80)