Resources of Grandparents: Educational Outcomes Across Three Generations in Europe and Israel

• Published date: 01 February 2018
• Date: 01 February 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12436

Erratum

Resources of Grandparents: Educational Outcomes

Across Three Generations in Europe and Israel

The statistical analyses in the article Deindl, C. and Tieben, N. (2017), 79(3):769-783 were based

on dyadic relations (parent-child-dyads) and not on children as described in the methods-section of

the article. These dyadic-relations were not accounted for by corrections of standard errors. We have

corrected this mistake by using the dataset as described in the methods-section. The analyses are

now based on 18,542 children, as intended, and the multivariate analyses control for the clustering of

children within parental household. After correcting the data, we observe slight undirected changes

in the means of nancial resources of parents and grandparents. In the multivariate analyses we

observe slight changes in coefcients and – as expected due to deletion of the duplicates – an increase

in standard errors. However, the overall results and the substantive conclusions remain stable after

correcting the error.

We thank Paula Sheppard and Christiaan Monden who brought this to our attention.

Tab le 1 . Descriptive Statistics (N=18,542 children)

Variables M/ % SD Minimum Maximum

Characteristics of Children

High education 0.38 0 1

Age (child) 40.40 9.43 25 80

Sex (male) 0.50 0 1

Number of children of parents 2.87 1.46 1 15

Grandparental resources

High education 0.15 0 1

Financial resources

Pretty well off 19.32

About average 61.50

Poor 17.74

It varied 1.44

Parental resou rces

High Education 0.31 0 1

Financial resources

Easily 45.20

Fairly easily 26.60

With some/great difculty 28.20

Sibling(s) 0.92 0 1

Birth Year 1945 9.20 1912 1960

Wealth 329,924 477,616 −230,128 7,937,436

Note. Data from Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Wave5.

Journal of Marriage and Family 80 (February 2018): 289–293 289

DOI:10.1111/jomf.12436