本研究之目的，在深入觀察台灣家庭子女的受教育年數和家庭背景的關係，在考慮父母的社會經濟特性之外，特別強調其手足效果，希望可以深入了解子女的手足性別組成以及出生的前後排序，對於教育年數多寡的影響，透過兩種不同的效果觀察，互相印證手足效果的影響，並由此引申父母的性別偏好態度，並透過不同的出生世代(birth cohort)分類，觀察經濟發展的過程中，手足效果是否呈現不同的影響程度。
本文所使用的資料是華人家庭動態資料庫(Panel Study of Family Dynamics簡稱PSFD)。並以父母教育程度、父親籍貫、父親的職業、子女的性別、兄弟姐妹的數目、排行等變數，對受訪者所接受的教育成就進行分析，可獲致以下結論：
父母的教育程度和子女的教育程度有高度的正相關，父親對男性或女性教育程度的影響力較母親大，男性的教育程度和父親有較大的關連，女性的教育程度和母親有較大的關連。
姊姊的數目增加有助於教育年數的增加，其他手足則反而有不利的影響；男性有兄弟姐妹的效果皆正向高於女性有兄弟姐妹的效果。受訪者出生的排序愈小，其所接受的教育年數愈少；換言之，排行較後者其教育成就才不至受到壓抑。女性受排行負效果的影響大於男性，可以說明了社會普遍重男輕女傾向，這個結果隱含出生序小的女性，受制於家庭有限的資源，教育機會可能有不利影響。

Purpose of this study is to focus primarily on the investigation of the relationship between family background and children’s educational attainment. In considering inter-generational transfer mechanism of human capital, we especially emphasize on siblings effect. We hope to understand how the sibling’s composition and birth order affect the children’s educational attainment. Furthermore, we would like to check whether there is gender preference between parents. Moreover, stratify sub-samples by birth cohorts, we can further understand changes of sibling’s effect over the process of economics development.
We utilize the original data of “Panel Study of Family Dynamics” (PSFD) in this study to examine the decision-making mechanism of the household’s human capital investment on the children’s education.
Findings of the empirical analyses are that the educational attainment of the parents plays significant roles in determining the amount of the human capital investment towards the children’s education. Nevertheless, the magnitude of the influence is decreasing as the parents education increasing. Men’s educational attainment is affected more by their fathers than mothers, the reverse is true for women’s. Moreover, the existence of old sisters consistently shows positive siblings effect, while that of younger brothers and younger sisters are negative. Finally, we find positive birth order effects for children’s educational attainment for both male and female.

第一章 緒論﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 1
第一節 人力資本跨代移轉以及家庭內資源分配之研究動機﹒﹒﹒ 1
第二節 跨代移轉、手足效果、出生序效果等之研究目的﹒﹒﹒﹒ 2
第三節 論文架構﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 3
第二章 文獻回顧﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 5
第一節 人力資本投資的跨代移轉之文獻整理﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 5
第二節 人力資本投資的手足效果與性別偏好之文獻整理﹒﹒﹒﹒ 8
第三章 研究方法﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 14
第一節 華人家庭動態資料庫之簡介與變數之選取﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 14
第二節 變數之意義與基本統計量﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 16
第四章 實證模型﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 23
第一節 考慮手足效果之人力資本跨代移轉模型﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 24
第二節 出生序模型﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 25
第五章 實證結果與分析﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 27
第一節 家庭背景與手足效果對子女教育成就之影響﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 27
第二節 父母的性別偏好及出生世代與手足變項之交叉效果﹒﹒﹒ 32
第三節 出生序效果﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 36
第六章 結論及研究建議﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 38
第一節 結論﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 38
第二節 研究建議﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒﹒ 40
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