@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp57,
            	author={Gang, Ira N. and Zimmermann, Klaus F.},
            	title={Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin},
            	year={1999},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={57},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp57},
	abstract={The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set suggests ethnicity does matter: the size of the ethnic network has a positive effect on educational attainment, and a clear pattern is exhibited between countries-of-origin and educational attainment even in the second generation. For the children of the foreign-born, parental schooling plays no role in making educational choices. However, for Germans, contrary to the general findings in the literature, there is a statistically significant difference in favor of father´s education over mother’s education.},
	keywords={migration;education;second generation migrants;ethnicity;Assimilation},
            }