The Impact of The Impact of Parental Income on Early Schooling Transitions: a Re-Examination Using Data over Three Generations.

An increasing body of work based on American data suggests that the differences in performance between children from rich and poor families are not due to the differences in family income per se, but to unmeasured factors (typically hereditary traits) which simultaneously explain parents' income and children's outcomes. In this paper, we come to very different conclusions using new French data, new instruments and semi-parametric estimation techniques.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Maurin, E.
Subject:	EDUCATION \| INCOME \| SCHOOLS

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Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	46 pages
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; I21 - Analysis of Education
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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