%0 Report
        %A Plug, Erik
%A Vijverberg, Wim P.
        %T Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
        %D 2001
        %8 2001 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 247
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp247
        %X When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that at most 65 percent of the parental ability is genetically transmitted.
        %K adoption
%K Intergenerational mobility
%K genetic transfers
%K human capital