Why educated mothers don’t make educated children? A statistical study in the intergenerational transmission of schooling

Chiara Pronzato

No 2008-11, ISER Working Paper Series from Institute for Social and Economic Research

Abstract: More educated parents are observed to have better educated children. From a policy point of view, however, it is important to distinguish between causation and simple selection. Researchers trying to control for unobserved ability have found conflicting results: in most cases, they have found a strong positive paternal effect but a negligible maternal effect. In this paper, I evaluate the impact on the robustness of the estimates of the characteristics of the samples commonly used in this strand of research: samples of small size, with low variability in parental education, not randomly selected from the population.

Date: 2008-03-14
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