The Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Child’s Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis de Haan, M. Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):de Haan, M. (2010). The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam School of Economics. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Download date: 10 May 2018The e ect of parents' schooling on child's schooling:A nonparametric bounds analysis Monique de Haan * Abstract A strong positive relation between parents' schooling and child's schooling does not necessarily re ect a causal relation. The recent empirical literature has used di erent approaches to identify intergenerational schooling e ects and produces contradictory ndings. This paper uses a new approach to investigate the e ect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis. By relying on a set of relatively weak and in part testable assumptions, this paper obtains informative bounds on the average causal impact of mother's and father's schooling on the schooling of their child. The tightest bounds, which are obtained using monotone instrumental variables, show that increasing mother's or father's schooling to a college degree has a positive e ect on child's schooling which is signi cantly di erent from zero, but substantially lower than the OLS estimates.

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