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particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …
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We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … income, we find no effect of maternal education. Under certain assumptions, paternal education remains significant (for …
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We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … and income, the maternal education effect disappears, while paternal education remains significant but only for daughters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221099
particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280782
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This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child … health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income … and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799188
Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates … for identification within the same data: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. We find no effect of mothers …' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134988
There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests …: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers' education … on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother's education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137928
Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates … for identification within the same data: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. We find no effect of mothers …' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312884