Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

No 2608, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on children’s educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents’ involvement in children’s education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, the child’s educational attainment is more affected by the parents’ involvement than by the neighborhood quality while, for low-educated parents, the neighborhood quality seems to play the major role.

Keywords: cultural substitution; education; peer effects; cultural transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2007-02
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Published - published as 'Neighborhood Effects and Parental Involvement in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (5), 987 - 1013

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Working Paper: Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighbourhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement (2004)
Working Paper: Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement? (2004)
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