RT Monograph
SR 00
A1 Hammitt, James K.
A1 Liu, Jin-Tan
A1 Tsou, Meng-Wen
T1 The Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Evidence from Taiwanese Adoptions
YR 2011
FD 2011-12
VO 11-273
K1 intergenerational transmission
K1 education
K1 schooling
K1 adoption
AB This paper examines the causal effect of parental schooling on children’s schooling using a large sample of adoptees from Taiwan. Using birth-parents’ education to help control for selective placement of children with adoptive parents, we find that adoptees raised with more highly educated parents have higher educational attainment, measured by years of schooling and probability of university graduation. We also find evidence that adoptive father’s schooling is more important for sons’ and adoptive mother’s schooling is more important for daughters’ educational attainment. These results support the notion that family environment (nurture) is important in determining children’s educational outcomes, independent of genetic endowment.
T2 TSE Working Paper
PB TSE Working Paper
AV Published
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15186/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/25462