The effect of maternal education on children's academic performance

dc.contributor.advisor	Canaan, Serena
dc.contributor.author	Serhal, Mira
dc.contributor.department	Department of Economics
dc.contributor.faculty	Faculty of Arts and Sciences
dc.contributor.institution	American University of Beirut
dc.date	2020
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-22T11:34:13Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-22T11:34:13Z
dc.date.issued	2020-09-21T21:00:00Z
dc.description	Pierre Mouganie Hossein Radmard
dc.description.abstract	This paper studies the impact of maternal education on children's academic outcomes, particularly their grade repetition. Using time fixed effect analyses with data from the French Labor Force Survey (LFS); we find a negative and significant association between maternal education and children's grade repetition. On average, one more year of maternal education decreases the probability of children's grade repetition by 0.8 percentage points. We show that our results are robust by including a set of possible control variables. Plausible mechanisms that explain the maternal education-child academic outcome association provide more convincing evidence that the relationship between maternal education and children’s grade repetition is negative.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10938/21903
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject	Maternal education - Children's performance - Grade repetition - Credentials - Years of education - France
dc.title	The effect of maternal education on children's academic performance
dc.type	Thesis

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