Does parental employment affect children's educational attainment?

Hannah Hörisch
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Hannah Schildberg-Hoerisch ()

Discussion Papers in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational attainment. We address potential endogeneity problems due to (i) selection of parents in the labor market by estimating a model on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel. Overall, we find little support that parental employment affects children's educational attainment. We can rule out that having a mother who works one hour more per week lowers the probability of high secondary track attendance by more than 0.1%.

Keywords: sibling differences; educational attainment; child care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C20 I21 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-02-26
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