Havari, Enkelejda; Savegnago, Marco - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2013
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 …