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De Philippis, Marta; Rossi, Federico – Centre for Economic Performance, 2019
This paper studies the contribution of parental influence in accounting for cross-country gaps in human capital achievements. We argue that the cross-country variation in unobserved parental characteristics is at least as important as the one in commonly used observable proxies of parental socio-economic background. We infer this through an…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Human Capital, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries