Schooling, Family Background and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that at most 65 percent of the parental ability is genetically transmitted.

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Year of publication:	2001
Authors:	Plug, Erik ; Vijverberg, Wim P. M.
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Bildungsverhalten \| Bildungsniveau \| Familiensoziologie \| Schätzung \| USA \| Intergenerational mobility \| human capital \| genetic transfers \| adoption

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 247
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	835540839 [GVK] hdl:10419/21096 [Handle]
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; I21 - Analysis of Education
Source:	EconStor

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