The Effect of Mothers' Education on Children's Academic Performance

Asta Breinholt Lund; Anders Holm

The Effect of Mothers' Education on Children's Academic Performance

Bidragets oversatte titel: Effekten af mødres uddannelse på børns faglige præstationer

Asta Breinholt Lund, Anders Holm

Abstract

Parental education and mothers education in particular are believed to play an important role for children’s academic outcomes. This paper analyzes the causal effect of mothers' education on children’s academic performance. Using Danish administrative data on mothers’ education careers, we apply a difference-in-differences design to control for the nonrandom selection into maternal education and find that mothers’ education has a positive effect on children’s academic performance. The effect diminishes, the higher the mothers’ initial educational attainment.

Bidragets oversatte titel	Effekten af mødres uddannelse på børns faglige præstationer
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	29 maj 2015
Status	Udgivet - 29 maj 2015
Begivenhed	The Spring Meeting of Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) - Tilburg University, Tilburg, Holland Varighed: 28 maj 2015 → 30 maj 2015

Konference

Konference	The Spring Meeting of Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28)
Lokation	Tilburg University
Land/Område	Holland
By	Tilburg
Periode	28/05/2015 → 30/05/2015

Citationsformater

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