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Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second MomentsLidia FarréSpanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) - Institute for Economic Analysis; Universidad de Alicante Roger W. KleinRutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Faculty of Arts and Sciences-New Brunswick/Piscataway, Department of Economics Francis VellaGeorgetown University; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) IZA Discussion Paper No. 3967 Abstract: This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of parental education via instrumental variables we exploit the feature of the transmission mechanism responsible for its endogeneity. More explicitly, we assume the intergenerational transfer of unobserved ability is invariant to the economic environment. This, combined with the heteroskedasticity resulting from the interaction of unobserved ability with socioeconomic factors, identifies this causal effect. We conclude the observed intergenerational educational correlation reflects both a causal parental educational effect and a transfer of unobserved ability.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 28 Keywords: intergenerational mobility, endogeneity, conditional correlation JEL Classification: C31, J62 working papers seriesDate posted: February 2, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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