Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in adoptive families in the Netherlands
To improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the strong association between family background and children's educational attainment, we examined intergenerational transmission within families where genetic transmission is absent. Specifically, we investigated the effect of parent's education and income on the educational attainment of their foreign-born adopted children. A large-scale register database was used, which contains information on the adoption status, educational level in secondary school and parental characteristics of all 15-year old children living in the Netherlands... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Schlagwörter: | Educational attainment / Foreign-born adopted children / Intergenerational transmission |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26831815 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/108659 |