The Intergenerational Transmission of Education: New Evidence from Adoptions in the USA
利用2008-2014年美国社区调查中大量收养儿童样本，发现母亲教育对收养子女教育影响不显著，而父亲教育对白人收养儿童有显著影响，但对黑人儿童无影响，表明教育代际传递存在种族差异。
This paper examines the influence of parental education on children's grade‐for‐age using a large sample of adoptees drawn from the American Community Survey between 2008 and 2014. The results show that mother's education is not an important determinant of the education of adopted children, despite statistically significant effects for own‐birth children. The results for fathers are different. Among adopted white children, the effect of father's education is shown to be a statistically significant determinant of grade retention. However, among black children, adoptive father's education does not appear to have any discernible effect on children's education. A range of sensitivity tests are undertaken to check the validity of these results. The differences in these patterns between white and black students suggest the presence of racial differences in the intergenerational transmission of education.