An examination of paternal and maternal intergenerational transmission of schooling |
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| Authors: | Chiara Pronzato |
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| Affiliation: | (1) DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Via R?ntgen n. 1, 20136 Milan, Italy;(2) Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway;(3) CHILD Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy;(4) ISER University of Essex, Colchester, UK |
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| Abstract: | More educated parents are observed to have better educated children. However, previous research has found conflicting results regarding the role of fathers and mothers: in most cases, a strong positive paternal effect was found with a negligible maternal effect; in fewer cases, opposite results were found. In this paper, I use a sample of Norwegian twins to evaluate the impact of sample size and sample selection on the estimates’ robustness: results concerning the effect of mother’s education are very sensitive to the sample size, while the selection of the sample seems to be a key to reconciling previous results. |
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