Education and Ethnicity in Canada: An Intergenerational Perspective

Arthur Sweetman and Gordon Dicks

Journal of Human Resources, 1999, vol. 34, issue 4, 668-696

Abstract: Ethnic and intergenerational aspects of human capital investment are explored. Levels of, and (cross-sectional) returns to, education across ethnic groups in Canada are estimated and large differences observed. For men, a positive correlation exists between ethnic group average years of education and its return. We also find large negative correlations between ethnic group average educational outcomes and the previous generation's fertility, suggesting a role for home production as a complement to formal education and supporting models of child quantity-quality trade-offs. Very slow intergenerational convergence in ethnic group level educational and labor market outcomes is also observed.

Date: 1999
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