Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is It Nature or Is It Nurture?

Erik Plug () and Wim Vijverberg

Journal of Political Economy, 2003, vol. 111, issue 3, 611-641

Abstract: When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that about 5560 percent of the parental ability is genetically transmitted.

Date: 2003
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