The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Suhonen, Tuomo; Karhunen, Hannu
• 署名单位: VATT Institute for Economic Research; University of Jyvaskyla
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.07.001
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 195-217
• 关键词: Intergenerational transmission of education; University accessibility

摘要

We examine the causal relationship between the educational attainment of parents and that of their children using quasi-experimental variation from changes in parents' access to university generated by the geographical expansion of the Finnish university system between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Our results suggest that, for the children of parents affected by the changes in university accessibility, there is a strong positive spillover effect of around 0.5 from parent's to child's attained years of education. Our analyses using alternative parental and child outcomes suggest that the effect of parental education is partly driven by assortative mating and may also be related to children's improved school performance. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.