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De Philippis, Marta and Rossi, Federico (2021) Parents, schools and human capital differences across countries. Journal of the European Economic Association, 19 (2). pp. 1364-1406. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvaa036 ISSN 1542-4766.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaa036
Abstract
This paper studies the contribution of parental influence in accounting for cross-country gaps in human capital achievements. We argue that the cross-country variation in unobserved parental characteristics is at least as important as the one in commonly used observable proxies of parental socio-economic background. We infer this through an indirect empirical approach, based on the comparison of the school performance of second-generation immigrants. We document that, within the same host country or even the same school, students whose parents come from high-scoring countries in standardized international tests (PISA) do better than their peers with similar socio-economic backgrounds. This finding is not driven by differential selection into emigration. We provide several pieces of evidence that support the transmission of cultural values as a leading channel behind the cross-country variation in the parental component. Unobserved parental characteristics account for about 15% of the cross-country variance in test scores, roughly doubling the overall contribution of parental influence.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Human capital, Human capital -- Accounting, Intergenerational relations -- Economic aspects, Income distribution | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the European Economic Association | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1542-4766 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1364-1406 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvaa036 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the European Economic Association following peer review. The version of record Marta De Philippis, Federico Rossi, Parents, Schools and Human Capital Differences across Countries, Journal of the European Economic Association, , jvaa036, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaa036 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaa036 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 April 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 September 2022 | ||||||||
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