TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanushek,Eric A.
AU  - Jacobs,Babs
AU  - Schwerdt,Guido
AU  - van der Velden,Rolf
AU  - Vermeulen,Stan
AU  - Wiederhold,Simon
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of  Comparative Skill Advantages
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - Education and Inequality
KW  - jelc
KW  - Returns to Education
KW  - Marriage • Marital Dissolution • Family Structure • Domestic Abuse
KW  - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility
N1  - April 2023; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and language skills across generations and permits analysis of the intergenerational transmission of comparative skill advantages. Exploiting within-family between-subject variation in skills, we show that comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows from a novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent skill advantages due to their teacher and classroom peer quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31186
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31186
ER  -