PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jorge M. Agüero
AU  - Maithili Ramachandran
TI  - The Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling among the Education-Rationed
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.2.0816.8143R
DP  - 2018 Aug 03
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0816-8143R
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2018/08/01/jhr.55.2.0816.8143R.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2018/08/01/jhr.55.2.0816.8143R.full
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.