Artículo
Intergenerational transmission of education: the relative importance of transmission channels
Registro en:
2196-436X
En: Latin American Economic Review, volumen 24, número 1, enero de 2015
Autor
Chávez Juárez, Florian Wendelspiess
Resumen
Intergenerational transmission of education, social mobility, IQ transmission, inequality, Mexico This paper aims at quantifying the relative importance of different transmission channels generating the high levels of intergenerational correlations in education, especially in Latin America. A simultaneous equations model is applied to rich survey data from Mexico. The results show that the economic situation of the family has the highest impact, even more than heritability of cognitive abilities. The long-run economic situation seems to matter more than the current consumption level. Parental education affects the schooling outcome directly but also indirectly through the economic situation, which is particularly true for the father.