Table 4.

Educational Attainment of Grandchildren by Multigenerational Types of Family Structure

	Grandchildren’s Years of Schooling: Mean (S.D)
	Family structure in G1			Family structure in G2			Family structure in both G1 and G2
	Unmarried	Divorced	2-parent	Unmarried	Divorced	2-parent	Unmarried	Divorced	2-parent
Full Sample	12.7 (2.1)	12.7 (2.1)	13.2 (2.3)	12.2 (2.0)	12.8 (2.2)	13.7 (2.2)	12.6 (1.9)	12.6 (2.0)	13.8 (2.2)
N	275	1,007	4,075	1,284	1,360	2,713	140	243	2,163
Percent, %	5.1	18.8	76.1	24.0	25.4	50.6	2.6	4.5	40.4
African Americans	12.7 (2.1)	12.5 (2.1)	12.6 (2.1)	12.2 (1.9)	12.4 (2.1)	13.2 (2.2)	12.6 (1.9)	12.3 (1.9)	13.2 (2.2)
N	217	572	1,736	1,091	574	860	124	112	600
Percent, %	8.6	22.7	68.8	43.2	22.7	34.1	4.9	4.4	23.8
Whites	13.1 (2.0)	13.0 (2.2)	13.7 (2.3)	12.2 (2.1)	13.0 (2.2)	13.9 (2.2)	12.9 (1.9)	12.8 (2.1)	14.0 (2.2)
N	58	435	2,339	193	786	1,853	16	131	1,563
Percent, %	2.0	15.4	82.6	6.8	27.8	65.4	0.6	4.6	55.2

Data sources: Multigenerational linked data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1968–2013.

Notes: For the sake of simplicity, the figures are calculated based on data from the first imputed dataset. The statistics are similar for the other 19 imputed samples. When presenting the joint distribution of family structure in both G1 and G2, the table omits all categories except for those that have the same structure in G1 and G2, namely both unmarried, divorced, and two-parent.