Why Educated Mothers don’t Make Educated Children? A Statistical Study in the Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling

Chiara Pronzato

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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.

Keywords: intergenerational transmission; education; twin-estimator; sibling-estimator; power of the test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2008-03
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