The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Can Rev Sociol. 2022 Aug;59(3):292-308. doi: 10.1111/cars.12384. Epub 2022 Jun 7.
Intergenerational processes in which the socioeconomic status of middle- and upper-class parents is reproduced in their children have been extensively documented by social scientists. We mobilized a unique dataset, the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA) linked to income data from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), to investigate the relevance of intergenerational socioeconomic reproduction for inequalities in self-rated health in a national sample of Canadians aged 25 to 50. We found strong intergenerational elasticities implicating both parental education and parental family income in the acquisition of both personal education and personal family income. Parental education was not significantly associated with self-rated health. Parental family income was significantly associated with self-rated health among women only, partly explained by the socioeconomic status of the women themselves. These results suggest that intergenerational reproduction plays a small role in the generation of high levels of self-rated health among Canadian women but not among Canadian men.
社会科学家广泛记录了中上层父母的社会经济地位在其子女中再现的代际过程。我们利用了一个独特的数据集，即纵向和国际成人研究（LISA），该数据集与加拿大税务局（CRA）的收入数据相关联，以调查代际社会经济再生产对加拿大 25 至 50 岁人群中自我评估健康不平等的相关性。我们发现，代际弹性很强，这表明父母的教育和家庭收入都与个人教育和个人家庭收入的获得有关。父母的教育与自我评估的健康状况没有显著关联。只有在女性中，父母的家庭收入与自我评估的健康状况显著相关，这在一定程度上可以用女性自身的社会经济地位来解释。这些结果表明，代际再生产在加拿大女性中产生高水平自我评估健康方面的作用较小，但在加拿大男性中则不然。
