The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes

Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; van der Velden, Rolf; Vermeulen, Stan; Wiederhold, Simon

The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes

Dateien

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Datum

2022

Autor:innen

Hanushek, Eric A.

Jacobs, Babs

Schwerdt, Guido

van der Velden, Rolf

Vermeulen, Stan

Wiederhold, Simon

Schriftenreihe

Working Paper Series / Cluster of Excellence 'The Politics of Inequality'

URI (zitierfähiger Link)

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1812tszi5lk45

Link zur Lizenz

Urheberrechtlich geschützt

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

Sammlungen

Exzellenzcluster "Die politische Dimension von Ungleichheit"
Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Publikationstyp

Working Paper/Technical Report

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and language skills across generations. We identify the connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these skills. A causal interpretation of the between-subject estimates is reinforced by novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent cognitive skills due to teacher and classroom peer quality. The between-subject and IV estimates of the key intergenerational persistence parameter are strikingly similar and close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie

Schlagwörter

intergenerational mobility, parent-child skill transmission, causality, STEM

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HANUSHEK, Eric A., Babs JACOBS, Guido SCHWERDT, Rolf VAN DER VELDEN, Stan VERMEULEN, Simon WIEDERHOLD, 2022. The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes

BibTex

@techreport{Hanushek2022Inter-56963,
  year={2022},
  series={Working Paper Series / Cluster of Excellence 'The Politics of Inequality'},
  title={The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes},
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  author={Hanushek, Eric A. and Jacobs, Babs and Schwerdt, Guido and van der Velden, Rolf and Vermeulen, Stan and Wiederhold, Simon}
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