Intergenerational correlations in educational attainment: Birth order and family size effects using Canadian data |
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| Authors: | Anindya Sen Anthony Clemente |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue W., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;2. Independent Electricity Supply Operator (IESO), Ontario, Canada;1. University of South Carolina, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, 701 Sumter St. EWS 617, Columbia, SC 29208, USA;2. Oregon State University, 104 CEOAS Administration Building, Corvallis, OR 97331-5503, USA;3. USGS California Water Science Center, California State University, Placer Hall, MS 6129, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6129, USA;1. Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA;2. Department of Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA;3. School of Finance, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China;1. Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;2. Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;3. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts;4. Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health;5. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health;6. Department of Medical Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts;7. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts;8. Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts;9. Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;10. Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York |
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| Abstract: | We exploit the 1986, 1994, and 2001 waves of the Canadian general social surveys in order to estimate intergenerational correlations in education. The use of these specific data is important because of available information on the final educational attainment of survey respondents and both parents, as well as family size and birth order. OLS estimates reveal that: (1) relying exclusively on maternal schooling to capture the effects of parental education results in coefficient estimates that are biased upwards; (2) children born to parents with some post-secondary schooling are more likely to attain similar education levels than children born to parents with lower educational accomplishment; (3) in most specifications coefficient estimates of paternal schooling are greater in magnitude than maternal accomplishment; and finally, (4) coefficient estimates of the number of siblings are consistently negative and significant even after the inclusion of birth order effects, implying that a larger family is correlated with a reduced likelihood of post-secondary education. |
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