Family Background and Schooling Outcomes Before and During the Transition: Evidence from the Baltic Countries

Mihails Hazans

No 2005-1, SSE Riga/BICEPS Research Papers from Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga)

Abstract: This paper examines human capital gap between titular ethnicities and Russianspeaking minorities, which has emerged in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during the transition and remains significant after controlling for parental education. For recent cohorts, unexplained gap is declining in Lithuania (despite absence of Russian language tertiary education) and in Estonia. Furthermore, we investigate intergenerational mobility in the Baltic countries. Parental education has a strong positive effect on propensity to obtain tertiary education, both in Soviet era and in post-Soviet period. Transition to the market has weakened mother’s education effect for titular ethnicities, while the opposite is true for minorities.

Keywords: Parental education; ethnic minorities; transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2005
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