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 55-60 percent of the parental ability is genetically transmitted

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Plug, Erik J. S. ; Vijverberg, Wim P. M.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Bildungsverhalten \| Educational behaviour \| Bildungsniveau \| Educational achievement \| Familiensoziologie \| Sociology of the family \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Bildungsforschung \| Educational research \| Finnland \| Finland
Description of contents:	Abstract [papers.ssrn.com]

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 111, June 2003 Volltext nicht verfügbar
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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