OSC Scientific Seminar 2020-2021

Friday, 19th March 2021, 11:30 am / 1 pm (Zoom video conference)

Intergenerational transmission of advantage: from children to parents

Patrick Präg

Assistant Professor, Departement of Sociology, University of Oxford
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), CNRS, École polytechnique, GENES, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris 

Parents of better-educated children are healthier and live longer. This association has been established in a number of societies and for various health outcomes. But is it a causal effect of children's education or the result of unobserved confounding? In a series of studies drawing on linked census data from England and Wales, the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, and the Health and Retirement Study, and exploiting English educational reforms as well as variation in the genetic predisposition for educational attainment, I investigate this question. This is joint work with Joan Madia, Cecilia Potente, Felix Tropf, and Christiaan Monden.

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• Patrick Präg's Personal Website (Google site)