PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Agüero, Jorge M. AU - Ramachandran, Maithili TI - The Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling among the Education-Rationed AID - 10.3368/jhr.55.2.0816.8143R DP - 2020 Mar 31 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 504--538 VI - 55 IP - 2 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/504.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/504.full SO - J Hum Resour2020 Mar 31; 55 AB - 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.