Estimates of the Returns to Schooling from Sibling Data: Fathers, Sons, and Brothers

Ashenfelter, Orley; Zimmerman, D. Patrick

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“…45 For father-son pairs, Ashenfelter and Zimmerman (1997) propose a slightly generalized model in which A~j = c~A~i. They ignore heterogeneity in b~.…”

Section: Z Models For Siblings and Twinsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings

Card

1999

Handbook of Labor Economics

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“…45 For father-son pairs, Ashenfelter and Zimmerman (1997) propose a slightly generalized model in which A~j = c~A~i. They ignore heterogeneity in b~.…”

Section: Z Models For Siblings and Twinsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings

Card

1999

Handbook of Labor Economics

2,357

101

2,138

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“…This strategy is widely used with data on developing countries and can capture various environmental influences. Thus, Ashenfelter and Zimmerman (1997) use parental education as instrument, Butcher and Case (1994) employ the presence of a sister in the family, and Card (1995) relies on geographic proximity to a junior high school.…”

Section: B2 Endogeneity Of Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Then we recover the estimated residuals and use them as an additional explanatory variable in the second-stage equation, together with the education variables. Following Blackburn and Neumark (1995), Lam and Schoeni (1993), or Ashenfelter and Zimmerman (1997), we also made a different use of family background information by introducing it directly into the earnings functions. Applying all these different techniques is interesting because the various underlying hypotheses can reveal common trends in the results, which must then be seen as being relatively robust.…”

Section: B2 Endogeneity Of Educationmentioning

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Where Does Education Pay Off in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Two Cities of the Republic of Congo

Kuepié¹,

Nordman²

2015

Oxford Development Studies

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“…When there are not enough twins (this is always the case in survey data), researchers have used siblings for the same purpose: trying to separate the effect of interest from the unobservable characteristics of the family (Behrman and Wolfe, 1989;Neumark and Korenman, 1994;Altonji and Dunn, 1996;Ashenfelter and Zimmerman, 1997;Aaronson, 1998;Ermisch and Francesconi, 2000).…”

Section: The Intergenerational Transmission Of Education In the Economentioning

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An examination of paternal and maternal intergenerational transmission of schooling

Pronzato

2010

J Popul Econ

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More educated parents are observed to have better educated children. From a policy point of view, however, it is important to distinguish between causation and selection. Previous research trying to control for unobserved heterogeneity has found conflicting results: in most cases, a strong positive paternal effect was found with a negligible maternal effect; in fewer cases, opposite results were found. In this paper, I make use of a sample of Norwegian twins to evaluate the impact on the robustness of the estimates when varying the sample size and when selecting different parts of the population. Results concerning the effect of mother's education are very sensitive to the size of the sample, while the part of the educational distribution considered seems to be a key to reconciling previous results from the literature. JEL classification: C23, I2

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Estimates of the Returns to Schooling from Sibling Data: Fathers, Sons, and Brothers

Cited by 151 publications

References 5 publications

The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings

The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings

Where Does Education Pay Off in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Two Cities of the Republic of Congo

An examination of paternal and maternal intergenerational transmission of schooling

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