The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends

By Tom Hertz, Tamara Jayasundera, Patrizio Piraino, Sibel Selcuk, N. Smith, Alina Verashchagina. 2008

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class (2012, methodology): “FIGURE O.4 Association between parental education and children’s years of schooling, selected countries Source: Authors’ calculations based on data from Hertz et al. 2007.”
• IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak? (2009, background): “For example, recent surveys show estimates of intergenerational income elasticities for several countries, and corresponding estimates of years of schooling for a very large number of countries (Björklund and Jäntti, 2009; Corak, 2006; Hertz et al., 2007) .”
• The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures (2020, methodology): “19For example, Hertz et al. (2007) report a regression coefficient for the U.S. of 0.46.20We compute this as follows.”
• Continuation to upper secondary education in Finland: Children of immigrants and the majority compared (2011, background): “Moreover, compared to many other countries, educational reproduction from parents to children has been found to be relatively low (Hertz et al., 2007).”
• The Transmission of Inequality Across Multiple Generations : Testing Recent Theories with Evidence from Germany (2018, neutral): “While the regression coefficients differ substantially across generations, the correlation coefficients are comparatively stable (consistent with evidence from other countries reported in Hertz et al. , 2008).”
• Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in England, 1858–2012: Surnames and Social Mobility (2015, neutral): “Educational mobility has been documented by Dearden et al, 1997 and Hertz et al, 2007.”
• How important is human capital? A quantitative theory assessment of world income inequality (2010, methodology): “Intergenerational correlation of schooling of 0.46 as obtained by regressing children’s years of schooling on parental education, where the latter is defined as the average years of schooling among mothers and fathers (see Hertz et al., 2007).”