Intergenerational educational mobility: effects of family and state in Malaysia
Lillard, L.A.; Willis, R.J.
Journal of Human Resources 29(4): 1126-1166
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-166X Document Number: 343053
This paper explores evidence concerning the relationship between parents' and children's education using a new body of data, the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-2), which contains information on the education of as many as four generations within a given family. These data make it possible to study the spread of education in Malaysia by examining the educational attainment of birth cohorts from 1910 to 1980. These data are used to study the effects of parental education on the progress of their children through elementary, secondary, and post-secondary school within a sequential discrete-time hazard model which allows for correlations among unmeasured family and individual-specific components. For a subset of the cohorts, time-varying covariates are introduced to measure the family's economic circumstances, the quality of its environment, and the composition of the subset at the time a given decision is made.