 The impact of parental income on the intra-household distribution of school attainment: A measurement strategy and evidenceAndrew W. Horowitz and André Souza The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2011, vol. 51, issue 1, 1-18 Abstract: The relationship between parental income and the level of educational attainment of children is controversial. Some argue that a direct relationship exists and others that unobserved factors correlated with both income and attainment drive the relationship. This paper explores the relationship between income and the intra-household dispersion of education attainment among children. We employ data from Brazil, which like many developing countries displays greater variation in intra-household education attainment than most high-income countries. Unlike prior analyses, IV estimation is employed to control for endogeneity and other biases. Contrary to prior findings, we report a robust monotonically declining relationship between the intra-household dispersion of education attainment and instrumented income. This relationship is consistent with child specialization in poor households suggested by recent theoretical work and has important policy implications. Keywords: Education; attainment; Intra-household; Inequality; Instrumental; variable; Endogenous; regressor (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:quaeco:v:51:y:2011:i:1:p:1-18 Access Statistics for this article The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance is currently edited by R. J. Arnould and J. E. Finnerty More articles in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance from Elsevier |
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