Family background, gender and cohort effects on schooling decisions

Javier Valbuena

Chapter 15 in Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación, 2011, vol. 6, pp 258-290 from Asociación de Economía de la Educación

Abstract: In this paper we use unique retrospective family background data from wave 13th of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to analyze the relevance of family background, in particular parental education - separated for fathers and mothers -, and gender on differential educational achievement. We find parents´ education attainments to be strong predictors of the education of their offspring. In particular, maternal education is the main determinant on the decision of whether stay-on beyond compulsory education. Our results are robust to the inclusion of a large set of control variables, including household income.

Keywords: Educational attainment; Schooling; Early school leaving; Education transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-84-695-0585-4
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