RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Father Presence and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 869
OP 899
DO 10.3368/jhr.51.4.1014-6678R
VO 51
IS 4
A1 Kalil, Ariel
A1 Mogstad, Magne
A1 Rege, Mari
A1 Votruba, Mark E.
YR 2016
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/51/4/869.abstract
AB We use administrative data from Norway to analyze how fathers’ presence affects the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Our empirical strategy exploits within family variation in father exposure that occurs across siblings in the event of father death. We find that longer paternal exposure amplifies the father-child association in education and attenuates the mother-child association. These changes in the intergenerational transmission process are economically significant, and stronger for boys than for girls. We find no evidence these effects operate through changes in family economic resources or maternal labor supply. This lends support for parental socialization as the likely mechanism.