The Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Taiwan
2014/12/26
研討會日期 : 2014-12-26
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Dr. Zong-Xian Xie
主持人 : Professor Stacey Chen
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Dr. Zong-Xian Xie received his Ph.D. in Economics from Department of Economics, National Taiwan University. His research field is Microeconometrics.
演講摘要 : Whether the intergenerational transmission of schooling exists has become a widely discussed topic via different empirical settings. In this paper, I use Taiwanese same-sex twins and siblings to examine parental schooling effects on their children’s schooling. The empirical findings based on 1951–1960 Taiwanese birth cohorts suggest that three additional years of parents’ education translates into an increase of children’s schooling by at most 0.5 year. Furthermore, I take advantage of a three-generation sample to test the Becker-Tomes model and find a strong evidence of supporting the important prediction of the Becker-Tomes model, that is, negative grandparental schooling effects.
