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Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from a Quasi‐natural Experiment in China
Author(s) -
Zhou Dong,
Dasgupta Aparajita
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12266
Subject(s) - instrumental variable , human capital , causality (physics) , china , natural experiment , economics , educational attainment , transmission (telecommunications) , demographic economics , identification (biology) , cultural transmission in animals , selection bias , econometrics , economic growth , geography , biology , statistics , physics , botany , mathematics , genetics , archaeology , engineering , quantum mechanics , electrical engineering , medicine , pathology
This paper exploits the closure of senior secondary schools in urban China from 1966 to 1971 in order to identify the causal intergenerational transmission effects of education. The paper uses the instrumental variable approach to examine the intergenerational causality of educational transmission at the senior secondary schooling level in urban China. The exogenous variation in parental senior secondary educational attainment both over time and across regions allows us account for selection bias and thus identify the causal intergenerational transmission effect in education. We further show that our conclusion is robust to alternative identification strategies and data sets.