TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Plug, Erik
AU  - Vijverberg, Wim P.
        TI  - Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
        PY  - 2001/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 247
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp247
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - adoption
KW  - Intergenerational mobility
KW  - genetic transfers
KW  - human capital
        ER  -