Which Grandparents? Multigenerational Education Associations by Grandparent Gender and Paternal versus Maternal Side

A growing body of research focuses on multigenerational mobility, but few studies show how grandparents’ gender and gender-specific lineage (paternal vs. maternal side) are differentially associated with the process status transmissions across generations. This article uses data from Health Retirement Study 1992–2018 (N = 15,623) to examine differences in grandparent-grandchild education associations. Grandfathers’ educational attainment is more strongly grandchildren’s than grandmothers’ education. Variation shared lifetimes residential proximity do not account for these differences, between grandmothers grandchildren positively attainment.