This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans – changes in … correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … intergenerational transmission of education over the last four decades. The decline is strongest in the lower tail of the educational …

education, sanitation, clean water and mobility. Our multivariate analysis highlights the importance of class membership for … mother’s education. While income seems to be less important for younger ages it becomes increasingly important for the … chances of reaching matric and obtaining tertiary education. The results are robust for various models and panel data. …

We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational … inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has … not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of education and intergenerational mobility modelling are subsequently …

and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a … the most recent cohort while education plays a substantially larger role. The first finding results from a smaller effect … finding results mainly from increased returns to higher education. …

intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …

This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using … parental birth order as instrument in the intergenerational mobility literature. We find that parental education has a positive …, large and significant causal effect on children’s education. This finding is robust to the instrument chosen (birth order …

This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using … parental birth order as instrument in the intergenerational mobility literature. We find that parental education has a positive …, large and significant causal effect on children’s education. This finding is robust to the instrument chosen (birth order …

: 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 … small causal effects of parental education can be explained by detrimental effects of higher labour force participation …