Arbeitspapier
School Quality and Family Background in Italy
We study if the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of IIWW and the end of 1980s had a significant impact on the educational attainment and labor market returns of a representative sample of Italians born between 1941 and 1970. We find that the lower pupil-teacher ratio is positively correlated with higher educational attainment, but that the overall improvement of parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We find that the positive impact of better school quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for individuals born in regions and cohorts with poorer family background. Parental education has had asymmetric effects, positive on attainment and negative on school returns. Better school quality also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for individuals with poor family background and negative for individuals born in regions and cohorts with relatively high parental education. Our evidence suggests that better school quality, measured by a lower pupil-teacher ratio, is a technical substitute to parental education in the production of individual human capital. When school quality and family background are substitutes, an increase of public resources invested in education can be used to reduce the differences induced by parental education.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 10.2003
Health: General
Analysis of Education
Family Background
Bildungsniveau
Bildungsertrag
Familiensoziologie
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Schätzung
Italien
Bildungsniveau
Checchi, Daniele
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Brunello, Giorgio
- Checchi, Daniele
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Entstanden
- 2003
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