Year: 2005
Author: Deding, Mette C., Hussain, Mohammad Azhar
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 125 (2005), Iss. 3 : pp. 347–368
Abstract
We consider the importance of parental education and childhood living conditions on children's educational attainment in Denmark. Data are two surveys of living conditions merged with register data and children included are children of interviewees' aged 25 - 35 in 1998. We estimate educational attainment by applying multinomial logit models, both with and without living condition variables. Parents' education is found to be very important, and especially regarding mother's education. Thus, having a bettereducated mother is more important for the educational attainment than having a bettereducated father. Introducing living conditions in the model decreases the importance of parents' education, but only marginally. Dividing the sample into sons and daughters, an asymmetry is found. Generally, mothers matter most for their daughters, while fathers matter most for their sons. In addition, sons and daughters are affected by different living condition variables.
Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: Multiple languages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.125.3.347
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 125 (2005), Iss. 3 : pp. 347–368
Published online: 2005-03
AMS Subject Headings: Duncker & Humblot
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 22