Table 10

Parental Abilities and Educational Success, Sons and Daughters

Model:	Sons			Daughters
Model:	(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)	(2)	(3)
Panel A: Dependent Variable: Achievement Test Scores at Age 16
Independent variables:
Father’s cognitive ability	0.402		0.282	0.381		0.283
	(0.022)		(0.024)	(0.022)		(0.024)
Father’s noncognitive ability	0.066		0.043	0.097		0.050
	(0.025)		(0.028)	(0.025)		(0.029)
Mother’s cognitive ability		0.433	0.321		0.369	0.251
		(0.024)	(0.026)		(0.024)	(0.026)
Mother’s noncognitive ability		0.073	0.015		0.137	0.075
		(0.027)	(0.031)		(0.027)	(0.031)
N	15,210	15,210	15,210	14,485	14,485	14,485
Panel B: Dependent Variable: Compulsory School GPA at Age 16
Independent variables:
Father’s cognitive ability	0.310		0.220	0.300		0.223
	(0.014)		(0.015)	(0.015)		(0.015)
Father’s noncognitive ability	0.188		0.124	0.202		0.121
	(0.016)		(0.019)	(0.016)		(0.019)
Mother’s cognitive ability		0.347	0.268		0.309	0.227
		(0.016)	(0.015)		(0.018)	(0.018)
Mother’s noncognitive ability		0.170	0.079		0.209	0.114
		(0.019)	(0.020)		(0.020)	(0.020)
N	46,037	46,037	46,037	43,457	43,457	43,457
Panel C: Dependent Variable: Years of Schooling at Ages 30–40
Independent variables:
Father’s cognitive ability	0.611		0.412	0.431		0.323
	(0.069)		(0.075)	(0.069)		(0.079)
Father’s noncognitive ability	0.297		0.206	0.437		0.333
	(0.075)		(0.087)	(0.080)		(0.095)
Mother’s cognitive ability		0.775	0.609		0.437	0.297
		(0.074)	(0.080)		(0.080)	(0.088)
Mother’s noncognitive ability		0.243	0.104		0.403	0.208
		(0.082)	(0.097)		(0.083)	(0.106)
N	13,231	13,847	13,847	12,380	12,380	12,380

Notes: The ability measures have been standardized. The father’s abilities have been predicted by using the paternal uncle’s abilities. The mother’s abilities have been predicted by using the maternal uncle’s abilities and the relative sibling correlations in Table 7. All models control for fixed effects for year of birth. Bootstrapped standard errors accounting for clusters on the father are in parentheses.