出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：There is plenty of evidence across the EU to suggest that young people from
poorer backgrounds are less likely to attend tertiary education than their
better-off peers. This correlation is often used to justify monetary transfers
to families with students. It is not clear, however, that these differences in
attendance are caused by income itself rather than by parental ability,
motivation, education, and other aspects of the young person’s experience which
differ between families, but are not a direct result of income. Controlling for
observable family characteristics is a useful first step. But further
developments are needed as families potentially differ in unobservable ways that
are correlated with both income and attendance. In this paper we use families
with several children to correct for unobserved time-invariant family fixed
effects. Our results suggest the absence of parental income effects in Belgium
and Germany, small positive effects in Poland, medium-size positive effect in
the UK, and sizeable positive effects in Hungary.
