Abstract
We undertook an international comparative study to empirically examine the similarities, differences as well as development trends of the intergenerational educational persistence, which refers to the correlation between the educational attainment of individuals and those of their parents, across 20 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries. We found that intergenerational educational persistence existed in all 20, but the degree varied among them. It was highest in the USA and Slovakia and lowest in Finland. Most interestingly, we demonstrated that countries with greater income inequality tend to exhibit stronger intergenerational educational persistence, while found no evidence of any correlation between the latter with some factors we always suppose they should have, like the poverty, public spending on education, etc.
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