The Influence of Parental Education on the Nature of Children’s Work : Empirical Evidence Based on CGSS
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DOI: 10.25236/icess.2019.255
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Ling Zhang
Abstract
This paper uses the survey data of China Comprehensive Social Survey (CGSS) to empirically analyze the influence of parental education on the nature of children's work, and defines the nature of children’s work as binary variables: non-agricultural work and farmer. The results show that the father's education level has a significant positive impact on the possibility of their child engaging in non-agricultural work, while the mother's education level has no influence when take the child's own characteristics into consideration. Therefore, the father has a deeper and longer influence on the children than the mother. During the child's training, the father should pay more attention to his role, and spend more time with the children while engaged in their work.
Keywords
Parents, Education level, The nature of work