The effect of parents' employment on children's educational attainment.

Autor/inn/en	Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	The effect of parents' employment on children's educational attainment.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2000), 35 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (Bonn). 215
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 30; Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Bildungsniveau; Mutter; Vater; Frau; Eltern; Schüler; Schulabschluss; Schülerleistung; Humankapital; Bildungsinvestition; Investition; Berufstätigkeit; Leistung; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in own consumption and children's well-being, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment.... We find a negative and significant effect on the child's educational atttainment of the extent of mother's full-time employment when the child was aged 0 - 5. The effects of mother's part-time employment are smaller and less determined but again negative.... These results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full family income, a higher mother's or father's wage reduces their children's educational attainment. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2003_(CD)