1. Do fathers’ aspirations influence children? Do fathers’ aspirations have differential effects for boys versus girls? Using the NELS data and multiple regression, test whether father’s educational...

1. Do fathers’ aspirations influence children? Do fathers’ aspirations have differential effects for boys versus girls? Using the NELS data and multiple regression, test whether father’s educational aspirations for their children (ByS48a) have any effect on their eighth grade children’s GPAs (ByGrads). Also test whether sex (Sex) moderates the effect of father’s aspirations on Grades. You should also control for family background characteristics (BySES) in this analysis. Note: you should treat the aspiration variable as a continuous variable; no modifications are needed to it. Treat boys as the reference group. Conduct

any needed pre-analyses and any needed follow-up analyses. What do your analyses show? Are fathers’ aspirations important? Are they important for both boys and for girls? Are they more important for one sex versus the other? Focus on the final table of coefficients from your overall regression. Which line in the output shows the intercept for the boys? Which line in the output shows the difference in intercept for girls?