Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities

By Silke Anger, G. Heineck. 2010

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• The likely impact of COVID-19 on education: Reflections based on the existing literature and recent international datasets (2020, background): “Anger and Heineck (2010) find that individuals’ cognitive skills are positively associated with their parents’ ability and they conclude that parental education plays an important role in explaining the transmission of cognitive abilities between generations.”
• Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: evidence from sibling correlations (2016, unknown): “Cunha and Heckman (2007) present a production function for this aspect of accumulated human capital.”