Are there effects of mothers post-16 education on the next generation?
(2006) Leon Feinstein and Kathryn Duckworth Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No.19 Link to the full report You need Acrobat Reader installed in order to view this file. There is an extensive body of research which shows that the children of parents with longer participation in education do better in standard tests of school attainment than those whose parents have had less education. One of the mechanisms put forward for explaining the intergenerational transmission of educational success is parenting. This report adds to a growing body of research from the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning on the inter-generational transmission of educational success and issues of parenting skills, behaviours and attitudes. The report seeks to establish whether the strong correlation between mothers’ participation in education and both her child’s development and her parenting results from a primarily causal relationship, or from selection effects. Using longitudinal data
