Leaving the parental home is a milestone in young people's transition to adulthood. The timing of leaving home varies greatly across European countries; however, evidence on the association between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and the age at leaving home in a comparative perspective is mixed, and subnational variation has received little attention. The module on the timing of life events included in Round 3 (2006) and 9 (2018) of the European Social Survey offers the opportunity to study how parental SES is associated with the age at leaving home, and how this association varies at the national and regional level for a sample of respondents born between the 1950s and the 1980s in 175 regions across 29 European countries. Results from three-level linear regression models indicate that a high parental SES postpones women's age at leaving home in most Southern and Eastern European countries, where state support to young people is low and family ties are strong, whereas the association between parental SES and the age at leaving home is less clear-cut in Western and Nordic countries. Between-country variation in the association between parental SES and the age at home-leaving prevails over within-country variation, suggesting that the role of the parental background is country-specific and that other unobserved factors may explain within-country heterogeneity.

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欧洲父母的社会经济地位和离家年龄：探索地区差异

离开父母的家是年轻人向成年过渡的一个里程碑。欧洲国家的离家时间差异很大；然而，从比较的角度来看，关于父母社会经济地位（SES）与离家年龄之间关系的证据好坏参半，而且地方差异很少受到关注。欧洲社会调查第 3 轮（2006 年）和第 9 轮（2018 年）中包含的生活事件发生时间模块提供了研究父母社会经济地位与离家年龄的关系以及这种关联在国家/地区如何变化的机会。 29 个欧洲国家 175 个地区出生于 20 世纪 50 年代至 80 年代的受访者样本的地区层面。三水平线性回归模型的结果表明，在大多数南欧和东欧国家，较高的父母社会经济地位会推迟女性离家的年龄，这些国家对年轻人的支持较低，家庭关系较强，而父母社会经济地位与家庭关系之间的关联性较高。在西方和北欧国家，离家年龄的界限不太明确。父母社会经济地位与离家年龄之间关系的国家间差异大于国家内部差异，这表明父母背景的作用是因国家而异的，而其他未观察到的因素可以解释国家内部的异质性。而在西方和北欧国家，父母社会经济地位与离家年龄之间的关系则不太明确。父母社会经济地位与离家年龄之间关系的国家间差异大于国家内部差异，这表明父母背景的作用是因国家而异的，而其他未观察到的因素可以解释国家内部的异质性。而在西方和北欧国家，父母社会经济地位与离家年龄之间的关系则不太明确。父母社会经济地位与离家年龄之间关系的国家间差异大于国家内部差异，这表明父母背景的作用是因国家而异的，而其他未观察到的因素可以解释国家内部的异质性。