Intergenerational transmission of human capital in Europe: evidence from SHARE

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 5 Effects of Parents’ education on sons and daughters, naive OLS

Dependent variable:	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Child’s education
Sample	Overall	Overall	Sons	Daughters
Parental education	0.286***	0.231***	0.230***	0.228***
	(0.011)	(0.013)	(0.020)	(0.017)
Parental educ*female (parent)		0.041***	0.044***	0.040***
		(0.006)	(0.009)	(0.008)
Household size	-0.176***	-0.172***	-0.154**	-0.176***
	(0.043)	(0.043)	(0.063)	(0.055)
Observations	6,184	6,184	3,117	3,067
Mean of Dep. Var.	13.25	13.25	13.14	13.34
Std. Dev. of Dep. Var.	2.84	2.84	2.89	2.78

Notes: All specifications include controls for country dummies, birth cohort dummies for parents and children (in 1-year intervals) and country-specific quadratic cohort trends (computed by interacting parental birth cohort and its square with country dummies). Standard errors clustered at the parents’ country and cohort level are reported in parentheses. * Significant at 10%; ** significant at 5%; *** significant at 1%.