%0 Journal Article
%T A Note on Intergenerational Schooling Mobility
%A Thomas Bassetti
%J Review of European Studies
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.5539/res.v4n4p121
%X This article studies how parental education affects children's completed years of schooling. Using a long-term survey, we test whether the intergenerational schooling mobility follows a linear or a nonlinear path. In line with some influential theoretical models, we find that the intergenerational link is clearly nonlinear. In particular, using a quantile regression technique and a generalized additive model, we conclude that this relationship has a logistic shape. This evidence suggests that works in which the intergenerational schooling mobility is estimated by using standard linear techniques do not capture salient nonlinearities.
%U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/res/article/view/19860