TY - JOUR T1 - The Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling among the Education-Rationed JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 504 LP - 538 DO - 10.3368/jhr.55.2.0816.8143R VL - 55 IS - 2 AU - Jorge M. Agüero AU - Maithili Ramachandran Y1 - 2020/03/31 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/504.abstract N2 - 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. ER -