American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Reply
American Economic Review
vol. 95,
no. 5, December 2005
(pp. 1745–1751)
Abstract
We reassess the empirical robustness of the empirical findings in Jere R. Berhman and Mark R. Rosenzweig (2002) using new information on schooling which was collected and coded independently of codings carried out by both Kate Antonovics and Arthur Goldberger, and Berhmamn and Rosenzweig. We conclude that the independently coded data and the codings by Antonovics and Goldberger provide additional support for Behrman and Rosenzweig's original results showing that the positive cross-sectional relationship between a mother's schooling and her child's schooling is not robust to controls for unmeasured, intergenerationally correlated endowments, while the positive effect of paternal schooling is robust.Citation
Behrman, Jere, R., and Mark R. Rosenzweig. 2005. "Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Reply." American Economic Review, 95 (5): 1745–1751. DOI: 10.1257/000282805775014263Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J21 Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure