The effects of female education on child education

A prospective analysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12657649
AutoresMichael Grätz (0000-0001-7920-1021, Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES, University of Lausanne, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Lausanne, Switzerland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen26
Número3
Páginas855-879
Fecha de publicación2023-11-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Societies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-6696 • E-ISSN: 1469-8307
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14616696.2023.2275591
OpenAlexW4388459908
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas61

This study estimates the effects of women's education on their offspring using quasi-experimental evidence from six educational reforms that increased the length of compulsory schooling in several European countries. The empirical analysis uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and instrumental variable estimation to estimate the effects of female education on fertility and on children's education. This study provides the first analysis using quasi-experimental variation in education to estimate prospective models of intergenerational effects. These models start with a birth cohort and link information on their fertility and on their children's outcomes. These models account for the effect of female education on the probability that women have children when estimating the effect of female education. The direct effect of female education on children's educational attainment, i.e. the effect conditional on the birth of a child, is positive. In addition, higher female education increases fertility. Therefore, the probability that a woman has a child with a high educational attainment is increased when considering the effect of female education on fertility. Studies that estimate retrospective models of intergenerational effects using reforms in the length of compulsory schooling may underestimate the total effect of female on child education

Compulsory education · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Estimation · Fertility · Instrumental variable · Offspring · Population · Pregnancy · Sociology · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies