Discussion Papers no. 563
A statistical study in the intergenerational transmission of schooling
Why educated mothers don't make educated children?
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 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. The part of the educational distribution involved in any identification strategy seems to be a key aspect to take into account to reconcile previous results from the literature.
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Why educated mothers don't make educated children?. A statistical study in the intergenerational transmission of schooling
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Chiara Pronzato
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Discussion Papers no. 563
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Statistics Norway
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Discussion Papers
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24
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Engelsk
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