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dc.contributor.authorHægeland, Torbjørn
dc.contributor.authorKirkebøen, Lars Johannessen
dc.contributor.authorRaaum, Oddbjørn
dc.contributor.authorSalvanes, Kjell G.
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-15T19:01:46Z
dc.date.available2010-10-15T19:01:46Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.issn0809-733X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/179925
dc.descriptionDiscussion papers (Statistisk sentralbyrå. Forskningsavdelingen)en_US
dc.description.abstractAbstract: There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests, grade repetition and in educational attainment. However, evidence for causal interpretation of this association is weak. Within a rich census level data set for Norway, we examine the causal relationship using two approaches for identification: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers’ education on children’s school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother’s education has a positive effect, but only a third of the size of the effect found in biological relationships in adopting families. Carefully tracking the work experience of parents during offspring childhood, we find no support for the hypothesis that the small causal effects of parental education can be explained by detrimental effects of higher labour force participation among more educated mothersen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherStatistics Norway. Research Departmenten_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion papers;No. 628
dc.subjectJEL classification: I21en_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectPupil achievmenten_US
dc.subjectIntergenerational transmissionen_US
dc.subjectParental educationen_US
dc.subjectUtdanningen_US
dc.subjectSkoleprestasjoneren_US
dc.subjectSosiale forskjelleren_US
dc.subjectJEL classification: J24en_US
dc.subjectJEL classification: J62en_US
dc.titleWhy children of college graduates outperform their schoolmates : a study of cousins and adopteesen_US
dc.typeWorking paperen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280::General education: 281en_US
dc.source.pagenumber38 s.en_US


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