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| Title: | | Schooling, Family Background and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?  |
| Authors: | | Plug, Erik Vijverberg, Wim P. M. |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 247 |
| Abstract: | | 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 at most 65 percent of the parental ability is genetically transmitted. |
| Subjects: | | Intergenerational mobility human capital genetic transfers adoption |
| JEL: | | J24 J13 I21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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