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Table 5 First stage regressions

From: Intergenerational transmission of education: the relative importance of transmission channels

Dependent variable

IV-1

IV-1

IV-1

IV-2

IV-3

IV-3

Ability

Educ

Educ

Ability

Educ

Educ

 

fath.

moth.

Ability

fath.

moth.

Instruments

   Father’s ability measure\(^+\)

0.198***

0.182***

0.063***

0.179***

0.169***

0.055***

 

(0.015)

(0.013)

(0.013)

(0.015)

(0.013)

(0.013)

   Mother’s ability measure\(^+\)

0.215***

0.062***

0.179***

0.204***

0.048***

0.171***

 

(0.015)

(0.013)

(0.013)

(0.016)

(0.014)

(0.013)

   Father grew up in a town

–0.032

0.205***

0.133***

 

0.207***

0.134***

 

(0.036)

(0.037)

(0.035)

 

(0.037)

(0.035)

   Mother grew up in a town

–0.035

0.041

0.250***

 

0.043

0.252***

 

(0.036)

(0.036)

(0.034)

 

(0.036)

(0.034)

Control variables

   Wealth index\(^+\)

0.129*** (0.021)

0.179*** (0.016)

0.133*** (0.016)

0.110*** (0.021)

0.171*** (0.016)

0.128*** (0.016)

   Log consumption\(^+\)

0.052*** (0.018)

0.208*** (0.015)

0.178*** (0.016)

0.028 (0.019)

0.204*** (0.015)

0.176*** (0.016)

   Worked in 2002

–0.099** (0.043)

–0.192*** (0.033)

–0.217*** (0.033)

–0.078* (0.044)

–0.185*** (0.033)

–0.213*** (0.033)

   Worked in 2005

–0.073** (0.035)

–0.139*** (0.028)

–0.182*** (0.029)

–0.058* (0.035)

–0.134*** (0.028)

–0.179*** (0.029)

   First born

0.029 (0.029)

0.075*** (0.025)

0.118*** (0.025)

0.020 (0.029)

0.073*** (0.025)

0.117*** (0.025)

   Gender

–0.076*** (0.027)

–0.041* (0.023)

–0.059** (0.024)

–0.072*** (0.027)

–0.036 (0.023)

–0.056** (0.024)

   Number of children

–0.043*** (0.012)

–0.002 (0.010)

–0.019* (0.010)

–0.043*** (0.012)

0.001 (0.010)

–0.018* (0.010)

   Number of teenagers

–0.024* (0.014)

–0.034*** (0.011)

–0.013 (0.011)

–0.021 (0.014)

–0.032*** (0.011)

–0.012 (0.010)

   Father’s education\(^+\)

   

0.078*** (0.019)

  

   Mother’s education\(^+\)

   

0.018 (0.019)

  

   Ability of the child\(^+\)

    

0.065*** (0.013)

0.041*** (0.013)

   Constant

0.641*** (0.129)

1.586*** (0.108)

1.179*** (0.110)

0.444*** (0.130)

1.545*** (0.107)

1.153*** (0.110)

   Control variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

   Angrist-Pischke F-statistic

69.165

42.813

64.246

206.105

40.996

52.094

   Angrist-Pischke \(p\) value

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

   \(N\)

4,266

4,266

4,266

4,266

4,266

4,266

   Adj. R2

0.254

0.460

0.446

0.258

0.463

0.447

  1. State fixed effects, government program benefits, the rural dummy and parental ethnicity and age are not reported. \(^+\) denotes standardized coefficients. Significance level: * 10 %, ** 5 %, *** 1 %