RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling among the Education-Rationed
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 504
OP 538
DO 10.3368/jhr.55.2.0816.8143R
VO 55
IS 2
A1 Jorge M. Agüero
A1 Maithili Ramachandran
YR 2020
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/504.abstract
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.