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Table 3 Relationships among family class background, cultural capital, and individual effort

From: Cultural reproduction or cultural mobility? Unequal education achievement among Chinese college students

 

Family cultural capital

Absence

Time spent on student activities

Model 1-1

Model 1-2

Model 1-3

B/S.E.

B/S.E.

B/S.E.

Gender (male = 1)

− .250*** (.052)

.165*** (.016)

.513* (.203)

Ethnicity (Han = 1)

.208** (.076)

.030 (.023)

− .638* (.260)

Hukou (nonagricultural = 1)

.992*** (.066)

.006 (.021)

− .387 (.260)

University (reference: elite university)

   

211 university

− .072 (.091)

− .006 (.028)

− .249 (.351)

non-211 university

− .161 + (.090)

− .022 (.028)

− .403 (.350)

Major (reference: humanities)

   

Social science

− .224* (.088)

− .078** (.027)

− .217 (.339)

Natural science

− .285*** (.085)

− .016 (.026)

− .926** (.328)

Cohort (2008 cohort = 1)

.226*** (.048)

− .022 (.015)

− .340 + (.187)

Family class (reference: working-class and farmers)

   

Nonphysical laborer

.863*** (.073)

.097*** (.023)

− .701* (.287)

Professional

1.521*** (.107)

.153*** (.033)

− .414 (.422)

Managerial class

1.586*** (.087)

.107*** (.028)

− .957** (.350)

Family economic capital

.447*** (.026)

.049*** (.008)

− .050 (.106)

Family cultural capital

 

− .003 (.005)

.039 (.061)

_const.

− 2.339***

1.248***

7.065***

N

4004

4004

4004

R^2

.442

.061

.020

  1. +p < 0.1, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001