Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?

Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?

Jere R . Behrman an y “ Does Increasing Women ' s Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation ? ”

New data on identical female and male twins are used to estimate the impact of increasing parental schooling on child schooling that incorporates the existence of unmeasured heritable traits and marital sorting. These data yield cross-sectional estimates that are consistent with previous studies of the impact of parental schooling on child schooling attainment. However, when twinning is exploit...

Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence based on Conditional Second Moments

Does Increasing Parents’ Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of parental education via instrumental variables we exploit the feature of the t...

Does Schooling Raise Earnings by Making People Smarter?

Schooling raises individuals' scores on cognitive tests. It also raises individual earnings. What is the connection between these two facts? Many have interpreted the substantial economic returns to schooling as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills as a determinant of individual earnings. But skill enhancement is not the only way schooling a ects earnings. We shall argue that schooli...

Increasing Returns to Schooling by Ability?

This study uses US survey data (NLSY) and Swedish register data to estimate the relationship between returns to schooling and ability for each country separately. A significant and positive relationship is found for Sweden but not for the US. The purpose is to propose an explanation for why such differences might occur. While many studies have focused on whether credit constraints result in ine...