%0 Journal Article %A Jorge M. Agüero %A Maithili Ramachandran %T The Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling among the Education-Rationed %D 2020 %R 10.3368/jhr.55.2.0816.8143R %J Journal of Human Resources %P 504-538 %V 55 %N 2 %X We estimate the intergenerational transmission of schooling in a country where the majority of the population was rationed in its access to education. By eliminating apartheid-style policies against blacks, the 1980 education reforms in Zimbabwe swiftly tripled the transition rate to secondary schools. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find a robust intergenerational transmission. A one-year increase in the schooling of the mother raises her child’s attainment by 0.073 years; the corresponding father-to-child spillover is 0.092 years. Choices in the marriage and labor markets mediate the size of these schooling transmissions. Several smoothness and placebo tests validate our design. %U https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/wpjhr/55/2/504.full.pdf