Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81148 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IUI Working Paper No. 631
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
Using cultural transmission, we develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children's educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated parents, the better the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring and we show that only the quality of the neighborhood has a significant impact on their children's educational attainment.
Subjects: 
Education
Cultural Transmission
Cultural Substitution
Peer Effects
JEL: 
I21
J13
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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