父母最高受教育程度或受教育年限，是教育代际传递、家庭背景和社会流动研究中的核心解释变量。
母亲教育、父亲教育和父母最高教育代表的机制不同；教育生产函数中建议分别报告或说明聚合规则。
Manually curated mapping of the same concept to its variable name in each database.
| dataset | variable | label | type/role | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pisa2022 PISA 2022 Student Questionnaire | PAREDINT | Highest Parental Education | continuous / iv,control | 父母最高受教育年限 |
| pisa2022 PISA 2022 Student Questionnaire | MISCED | Mother's Education ISCED | ordinal / iv,control | 母亲最高教育 ISCED |
| pisa2022 PISA 2022 Student Questionnaire | FISCED | Father's Education ISCED | ordinal / iv,control | 父亲最高教育 ISCED |
| gss2022 General Social Survey 2022 | paeduc | What is the highest grade in elementary school or high school that your father finished and got credit for? | — | 父亲受教育年限 |
| gss2022 General Social Survey 2022 | maeduc | What is the highest grade in elementary school or high school that your mother finished and got credit for? | — | 母亲受教育年限 |
| nlsy97 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 | CV_HGC_BIO_DAD_1997 | Father's Education | ordinal / iv,control | 生父最高教育 |
| nlsy97 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 | CV_HGC_BIO_MOM_1997 | Mother's Education | ordinal / iv,control | 生母最高教育 |
| ceps2015 中国教育追踪调查2015 | parent_edu | 父母受教育程度 | ordinal / iv | 父母最高教育程度 |