Who Matters Most? The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling

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This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within these countries, by gender, at different ethnic subgroups. Evidence is found, generally, that father's schooling is more important than mother's, but this does vary by ethnic group. Mother's schooling plays a relatively larger role for females.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 1996-13

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: education ; human capital ; immigrants ; parents ; schooling

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gang, Ira N.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Rutgers University, Department of Economics
• (where): New Brunswick, NJ
• (when): 1996

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/94287
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