%0 Report
        %A Gang, Ira N.
%A Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        %T Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
        %D 1999
        %8 1999 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 57
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp57
        %X 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.
        %K migration
%K education
%K second generation migrants
%K ethnicity
%K Assimilation