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Proximal family processes

2.3.3 Summary

Overall, there are clear empirical and theoretical grounds to suggest that educational
behaviours are important and have real and considerable effects on children’s
development, particularly in the cognitive domain. EPPE (Sammons et al., 2002)
concludes strongly that what parents do is much more important than who they are.
Moreover, the effects of parental education on educational behaviours in the home are
also apparent. Taken together we conclude that educational behaviours are an
important mediator of effects of parents’ education on children’s outcomes. However,
the magnitude of this effect has not been fully identified and as the evidence for the
causal role is not robust to reverse causality problems. There are strong grounds for
the view that educational behaviours are likely to be an important source for the inter-
generational transmission of educational success, although the distinction is not
always an easy one to make.

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