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dc.contributor.authorBlack, Sandra E.
dc.contributor.authorDevereux, Paul J.
dc.contributor.authorSalvanes, Kjell Gunnar
dc.date.accessioned2006-08-08T07:15:40Z
dc.date.available2006-08-08T07:15:40Z
dc.date.issued2003-10
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/162850
dc.description.abstractParents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this question by using a unique dataset from Norway. Using the reform of the education system that was implemented in different municipalities at different times in the 1960s as an instrument for parental education, we find little evidence of a causal relationship between parents’ education and children’s education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates that are consistently lower than the OLS estimates with the only statistically significant effect being a positive relationship between mother's education and son's education. These findings suggest that the high correlations between parents’ and children’s education are due primarily to selection and not causation.en
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherNorwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2003:20en
dc.subjectintergenerational mobilityen
dc.subjecteducationen
dc.subjecteducational reformen
dc.titleWhy the apple doesn’t fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capitalen
dc.typeWorking paperen


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