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Why Educated Mothers don’t Make Educated Children? A Statistical Study in the Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Chiara Pronzato ()
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More educated parents are observed to have better educated children. From a policy point of view, however, it is important to distinguish between causation and simple selection. Researchers trying to control for unobserved ability have found conflicting results: in most cases, they have found a strong positive paternal effect but a negligible maternal effect. In this paper, I evaluate the impact on the robustness of the estimates of the characteristics of the samples commonly used in this strand of research: samples of small size, with low variability in parental education, not randomly selected from the population.
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Keywords: intergenerational transmission ; education ; twin-estimator ; sibling-estimator ; power of the test ; Other versions of this item:
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"Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Comment ,"
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American Economic Review ,
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"Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples ,"
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2416, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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"Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? ,"
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