The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and language skills across generations. We identify a causal connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these skills. The data also permit novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parental cognitive skills due to school and peer quality. The between-subject and IV estimates of the key intergenerational persistence parameter are strikingly similar and close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields
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[2021]
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Authors: | Hanushek, Eric A. ; Jacobs, Babs ; Schwerdt, Guido ; Velden, Rolf ; Vermeulen, Stan ; Wiederhold, Simon |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Kognition | Cognition | Kinder | Children | Intergenerationale Übertragung | Intergenerational transfer | Bildungsniveau | Educational achievement | Eltern | Parents | Niederlande | Netherlands |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (72 p) |
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Series: | CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9388 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2021 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.3957702 [DOI] |
Classification: | i24 ; i26 ; J12 - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322018