The Intergenerational Transmission of Math Culture

Gianna Claudia Giannelli () and Chiara Rapallini

Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: We provide evidence that parents’ beliefs about the value of math have a positive impact on children’s math scores. This result is robust to the reverse causality that characterizes the relationship between parental attitude and children’s performance. Our model is estimated on a sample drawn from PISA 2012 of second-generation students and first-generation students who mi- grated before starting primary education. We instrument parental attitude with the country of origin math performance. We find that one additional score point in the origin country performance in math increases student performance by 21 percent of one standard deviation of the student math score.

Keywords: Parental beliefs; Math performance; Immigrant students. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J13 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2017
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