The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: de Haan, Monique
• 署名单位: University of Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/660798
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 859-892
• 关键词: intergenerational transmission; instrumental variables; next-generation; returns; raise; disability; EMPLOYMENT; education

摘要

A positive relation between parents' schooling and child's schooling does not necessarily reflect a causal relation. This article uses a new approach to identify intergenerational schooling effects: a non-parametric bounds analysis. By relying on relatively weak and in part testable assumptions, this article obtains informative bounds on the average causal impact of parents' schooling. The tightest bounds, using monotone instrumental variables, show that increasing mother's or father's schooling to a college degree has a positive effect on child's schooling that is significantly different from zero but substantially lower than the ordinary least squares estimates.