Intergenerational transmission of education among immigrants

This study focuses on the intergenerational transmission of education between immigrants and their offspring based on data derived from three immigrant generations. It also studies the effects of gender, language and ethnicity across generations on the educational attainment of the offspring. It is found that the effect of parental education across generations is positive and that neither paternal nor maternal educational attainment contributes more than the other. Regarding gender differences, females tend to have a higher educational attainment than their male counterpart. As for ethnicity Asians seem to have a higher educational attainment than their native counterpart, whereas this effect is negative for Mexican respondents.