Does co-residence with grandparents reduce the negative
association between sibship size and reading test scores?
Evidence from 40 countries.

J 2014

Does co-residence with grandparents reduce the negative association between sibship size and reading test scores? Evidence from 40 countries.

KREIDL, Martin and Barbora HUBATKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Does co-residence with grandparents reduce the negative association between sibship size and reading test scores? Evidence from 40 countries.

Name in Czech

Snižuje koresidence s prarodiči negativní efekt počtu sourozenců na čtenářskou gramotnost? Evidence ze 40 zemí.

Authors

KREIDL, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Barbora HUBATKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2014, 0276-5624

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.119

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/14:00073627

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2014.04.001

UT WoS

000345160300001

Keywords (in Czech)

počet sourozenců;školní výsledky;rozvoj;třígenerační domácnosti

Keywords in English

sibship size; school achievement; development; three-generation households

Abstract

V originále

This paper investigates the effect of coresidence with grandparents in three-generation households on the nature and size of the association between sibship size and reading test scores. It also explores whether this interaction changes with the level of socioeconomic development of a society. We argue that coresidence in traditional three-generation households has a protective effect against resource dilution and thus decreases the magnitude of the negative association between family size and test scores. We also suggest that coresidence in more modern contexts magnifies the degree of this negative association, since modern families form three-generation households only when severely destabilized. We apply 3-level regression models to the PISA 2000 data to examine our hypotheses and use the Human Development Index as a measure of development. We find that the negative association between family size and test scores increases at higher levels of development and does so more strongly when students coreside with grandparents. We, however, find no context, in which coresidence would erase the negative consequences of having many brothers and sisters on one’s own school test scores. These findings hold even when controlling statistically for the effects of public expenditure on education, public social security expenditure, and crude divorce rate as well as for the interactions of these variables with sibship size.

Links

GAP404/11/0130, research and development project

Name: Struktura rodiny a stratifikační proces: vysvětlují trend změny ve vnitrorodinných procesech, kompoziční změny anebo samo-výběr?

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Family structure and the stratification process: Do compositional effects, changes in intra-family processes, or selection bias explain the trend?

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KREIDL, Martin and Barbora HUBATKOVÁ. Does co-residence with grandparents reduce the negative association between sibship size and reading test scores? Evidence from 40 countries. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 2014, vol. 38, December 2014, p. 1-17. ISSN 0276-5624. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2014.04.001.

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KREIDL, Martin and Barbora HUBATKOVÁ. Does co-residence with grandparents reduce the negative association between sibship size and reading test scores? Evidence from 40 countries. \textit{Research in Social Stratification and Mobility}. 2014, vol.~38, December 2014, p.~1-17. ISSN~0276-5624. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2014.04.001.

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