Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Pronzato, Chiara
Title: Why educated mothers don’t make educated children? A statistical study in the intergenerational transmission of schooling
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.

Creation-Date: 20080314
Number: 2008-11
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2008-11.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2008-11