Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement?

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Patacchini, Eleonora ; Zenou, Yves (2004)
  • Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn
  • Subject: Wohnstandort | Education; Cultural Transmission; Cultural Substitution; Peer Effects | Bildungsertrag | Großbritannien | Schätzung
    • jel: jel:I21 | jel:J13 | jel:J24
      ddc: ddc:330
Using cultural transmission, we develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children's educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated parents, the be... View more
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