Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Effects of Family and State in Malaysia

Lee Lillard and Robert Willis

Journal of Human Resources, 1994, vol. 29, issue 4

Abstract: In this paper we explore evidence concerning the relationship between parents' and children's education using a new body of data, the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-2), which contains information on the education of as many as four generations within a given family. These data allow us to study the spread of education in Malaysia over much of this century by examining the educational attainment of birth cohorts from 1910 to 1980. More significantly, we use these data to study the effects of parental education on the progress of their children through elementary, secondary, and post-secondary school within a sequential discrete-time hazard model which allows for correlations among unmeasured family and individual-specific components. For a subset of the cohorts, we are able to introduce time-varying covariates to measure the family's economic circumstances, the quality of its environment, and the composition of the sibset at the time a given decision is made.

Date: 1994
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (118)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/146136
A subscription is required to access pdf files. Pay per article is available.

Related works:
Working Paper: Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Effects of Family and State in Malaysia (1995)
Working Paper: Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Efects of Family and State in Malaysia (1993)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:29:y:1994:4:1:p:1126-1166

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Human Resources from University of Wisconsin Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().