IV-Estimates of Intergenerational Correlations in Both Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities
| Sample | ETF Sample | Uncle Sample | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dependent Variable: | Son’s Cognitive Ability | Son’s Noncognitive ability | Son’s Cognitive Ability | Son’s Noncognitive Ability |
| Independent variable: | ||||
| Father’s cognitive ability | 0.358 | 0.062 | 0.445 | 0.052 |
| (0.082) | (0.010) | (0.014) | (0.018) | |
| Father’s noncognitive ability | 0.182 | 0.402 | 0.057 | 0.391 |
| (0.186) | (0.231) | (0.016) | (0.021) | |
| N | 1,889 | 1,889 | 50,171 | 50,171 |
Notes: The ability measures have been standardized. Standard errors adjusted for clustering on the father are in parentheses. The father’s abilities have been instrumented with either the father’s abilities at age 13 (ETF-sample) or the uncle’s abilities (uncle sample).