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On the Intergenerational Transmission of STEM Education among Graduate Students

Published:2020-10-17 Issue:1 Volume:21 Page:115-145
ISSN:1935-1682
Container-title:The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
language:en
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Author:

Chise Diana¹,Fort Margherita²³⁴⁵,Monfardini Chiara²³³

Affiliation:

1. European Central Bank , Directorate General Information Systems , Frankfurt am Main , Germany

2. Department of Economics , University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy

3. FBK-IRVAPP , Trento , Italy

4. CESifo , Munich , Germany

5. IZA , Bonn , Germany

Abstract

Abstract We provide novel evidence on the existence and extent of the intergenerational transmission of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from the AlmaLaurea survey. We find sizeable intergenerational associations in university graduation from STEM programs and demonstrate that these varies strongly according to both the parent’s and the child’s gender. The paternal outweighs the maternal intergenerational relationship and is larger for sons than for daughters. While the documented STEM education transmission is not driven by parental liberal profession for most STEM fields, this is the case for some non-STEM fields (economic and legal studies), consistent with the presence of barriers to entry into some professions.

Funder

University of Bologna Grant

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Economics and Econometrics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/bejeap-2020-0052/pdf

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