dc.contributor.author | Pronzato, Chiara | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-01T22:22:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-01T22:22:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1892-753x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/180367 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract:
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.
Keywords: intergenerational transmission, education, twin-estimator, sibling-estimator, power of the
test. | no_NO |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Norwegian Research Council has provided financial support for this
project. | no_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | no_NO |
dc.publisher | Statistics Norway, Research Department | no_NO |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion Papers;No. 563 | |
dc.subject | Utdanning | no_NO |
dc.subject | Utdanningsnivå | no_NO |
dc.subject | Mødre | no_NO |
dc.subject | Foreldre | no_NO |
dc.subject | Barn | no_NO |
dc.subject | Intergenerational transmission | no_NO |
dc.subject | Education | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: C23 | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: I2 | no_NO |
dc.subject | Skoleresultater | no_NO |
dc.title | Why educated mothers don't make educated children? : a statistical study in the intergenerational transmission of schooling | no_NO |
dc.type | Working paper | no_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280::General education: 281 | no_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 24 s. | no_NO |