The Impact of Education on the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Relatively Impoverished Areas

Abstract

This article utilizes the 2018 CLDS (China Labor-force Dynamics Survey) data, integrating the highest educational attainment and occupational level differences between parents and their children, along with variables such as region, gender, and age into a unified analytical framework. It employs the Logit model to investigate the effects of intergenerational educational mobility and occupational mobility on the intergenerational transmission of occupational class. The empirical results demonstrate that in relatively impoverished areas, there is a strong inheritance of occupational class. Educational advancement significantly promotes class mobility among the relatively impoverished population. Furthermore, the greater the educational leap, the more significant is the occupational class mobility. An increase in one tier of educational inheritance corresponds to a more pronounced inheritance of class status.