Volume 29, Number 4 (Fall) 1994
Lillard, Lee A., and Robert J. Willis. 1994. "Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Effects of Family and State in Malaysia." Journal of Human Resources 29(4):1126-1166.
In this paper we explore evidence concerning the relationship between parents' and children's' education using a new body of data, the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-2), which contains information on the education of as many as four generations within a given family. These data allow us to study the spread of education in Malaysia over much of this century by examining the educational attainment of birth cohorts from 1910 to 1980. More significantly, we use these data to study the effects of parental education on the progress of their children through elementary, secondary, and post-secondary school within a sequential discrete-time hazard model which allows for correlations among unmeasured family and individual-specific components. For a subset of the cohorts, we are able to introduce time-varying covariates to measure the family's economic circumstances, the quality of its environment, and the composition of the sibset at the time a given decision is made.
Lee A. Lillard is a senior economist at RAND. Robert J. Willis is a professor of education and public policy at the University of Chicago. This research was supported by NIA Grant No. R37-AG08346. The authors wish to thank Constantijn W. A. Panis, Marilyn Krogh, and Ruckmini Banerji for their assistance in this work. The software for this application was produced by Lillard and Panis. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in June 1995 through June 1998 from Lee A. Lillard at RAND, 1700 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401.
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