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- Title
Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?
- Authors
Dickson, Matt; Gregg, Paul; Robinson, Harriet
- Abstract
We estimate the causal effect of parents' education on their children's education and examine the timing of the impact. We identify the causal effect by exploiting the exogenous shift in (parents') education levels induced by the 1972 minimum school leaving age reform in England. Increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes that is evident in preschool assessments at age 4 and continues to be visible up to and including high-stakes examinations taken at age 16. Children of parents affected by the reform attain results around 0.1 standard deviations higher than those whose parents were not impacted.
- Subjects
SCHOOL leaving age; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTING; HOME environment; EDUCATIONAL attainment
- Publication
Economic Journal, 2016, Vol 126, Issue 596, pF184
- ISSN
0013-0133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecoj.12356