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

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.

Translated title of the contribution	Effekten af mødres uddannelse på børns faglige præstationer
Original language	English
Publication date	29 May 2015
Publication status	Published - 29 May 2015
Event	The Spring Meeting of Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) - Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands Duration: 28 May 2015 → 30 May 2015

Conference

Conference	The Spring Meeting of Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28)
Location	Tilburg University
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Tilburg
Period	28/05/2015 → 30/05/2015

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