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Table 5 Instrumental variable estimates: LFS 1992-2012

From: The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Specification:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Population

ALL

ALL

Blue

White

Sons:

    

Maternal school leaving age

0.011

-0.030

0.016

-0.016

 

(0.037)

(0.045)

(0.082)

(0.044)

Paternal school leaving age

0.028

0.003

-0.051

0.077*

 

(0.036)

(0.040)

(0.082)

(0.044)

Paternal log earnings

0.157**

-0.025

0.192**

-0.221

 

(0.066)

(0.126)

(0.082)

(0.234)

N

8661

8661

3,833

4,828

Daughters:

    

Maternal school leaving age

0.001

0.021

-0.009

0.017

 

(0.034)

(0.055)

(0.060)

(0.036)

Paternal school leaving age

0.070**

0.078*

0.015

0.055

 

(0.035)

(0.041)

(0.077)

(0.038)

Paternal log earnings

-0.031

0.039

-0.030

0.059

 

(0.060)

(0.165)

(0.074)

(0.188)

N

8137

8137

3,630

4,507

Instruments

RoSLA

RoSLA

RoSLA

RoSLA

 

MoB

MoB

MoB

MoB

 

PUM

 

PUM

PUM

 

PUM*Blue

PUM*Blue

  

Second stage controls

 

PUM

  
 

Blue

Blue

  
  1. Notes: Standard errors in parentheses. Specifications include year of survey dummies, regional dummies, dummies of child’s year of birth, cubics in parental dates of birth. RoSLA is a dummy for the Raising of School Leaving Age, MoB stands for Month of Birth (linear), PUM for Paternal Union Status, and Blue indicates if the father workers in a manual job.
  2. * p < .1. ** p < .05.