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How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?
Plug, Erik - 2002
The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of schooling and exploit differences between adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262243
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Schooling Family, Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276954
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Schooling, Family Background and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276955
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Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or ist Nurture?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761670
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How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?
Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of schooling and exploit differences between adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566423
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Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233889
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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations : Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
Bjorklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021
We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318296
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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden : What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?
Bjorklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021
We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic assumptions that the adoption strategy relies on. We find that … the adoption method survives these tests surprisingly well. Our empirical results suggest that one more year of either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319181