Schooling, family background, and adoption: Is it nature or is it nurture?

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that about 65 to 80 percent of the parental ability is genetically transmitted.

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Year of publication:	2000
Authors:	Plug, Erik ; Vijverberg, Wim
Publisher:	Helsinki : The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Subject:	Bildungsverhalten \| Bildungsforschung \| Finnland

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Series:	ETLA Discussion Papers ; 736
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	321132386 [GVK] hdl:10419/63853 [Handle] RePEc:rif:dpaper:736 [RePEc]
Classification:	I21 - Analysis of Education ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Source:	EconStor

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