Dynastic Correlations in Education
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Parents | 0.450*** | 0.386*** | 0.383*** | 0.377*** | 0.377*** | 0.376*** | 0.373*** | 0.373*** | 0.371*** |
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | |
Parents’ siblings | 0.122*** | 0.112*** | 0.106*** | 0.106*** | 0.105*** | 0.104*** | 0.103*** | 0.102*** | |
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | ||
Spouses of parents’ siblings | 0.024*** | 0.022*** | 0.022*** | 0.016*** | 0.016*** | 0.015*** | 0.015*** | ||
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | |||
Parents’ cousins | 0.036*** | 0.035*** | 0.034*** | 0.034*** | 0.034*** | 0.033*** | |||
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | ||||
Spouses of parents’ cousins | 0.003* | 0.003* | 0.003* | 0.003 | 0.003 | ||||
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | |||||
Siblings of spouses of parents’ siblings | 0.014*** | 0.014*** | 0.014*** | 0.013*** | |||||
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | ||||||
Control for MH | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Control for OH | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Sum of coefficients | 0.508 | 0.519 | 0.541 | 0.543 | 0.549 | 0.543 | 0.541 | 0.537 | |
SE | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.003 | |
R2 | 0.301 | 0.311 | 0.311 | 0.312 | 0.312 | 0.313 | 0.313 | 0.313 | 0.314 |
N | 265,174 | 265,174 | 265,174 | 265,174 | 265,174 | 265,174 | 265,174 | 265,174 | 265,174 |
Notes: The outcome is the (standardized) GPA in the final year (Grade 10) of compulsory schooling. Education in the parents’ generations is measured as standardized years of schooling. One observation per parent–child pair in all regressions. Controls included in the regressions but excluded from the table are indicators for the number of maternal and paternal siblings, siblings’ spouses, cousins, spouses of cousins, and siblings of spouses of parents’ siblings, gender of the child, fixed effects for the year of birth and for the year when the child is first observed in the primary healthcare data (KHUR), and indicators for whether it is possible to identify in the data each grandparent and great-grandparent. MH denotes mental health, while OH denotes non-mental health events. Eicker–Huber–White robust standard errors in parentheses. Significance: *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01.