Family background and gender differences in educational expectations

Kristin Kleinjans

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 107, issue 2, 125-127

Abstract: Socioeconomic outcomes of parents and their children are more correlated for sons than for daughters. This paper presents empirical evidence from Denmark that these gender differences result from different transmission mechanisms by separating the effects of parental education and income.

Keywords: Educational; expectations; Intergenerational; correlation; Gender; differences; Socioeconomic; background (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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