TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gang, Ira N.
AU  - Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        TI  - Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
        PY  - 1999/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 57
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp57
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - migration
KW  - education
KW  - second generation migrants
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - Assimilation
        ER  -