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ERIC Number: EJ560277
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0883-0355
New Developments in the Intergenerational Impact of Education.
Greenwood, Daphne T.
International Journal of Educational Research, v27 n6 p503-11 1997
Some benefits of education are realized by society in general. The focus in this article is on three of these external, or spillover, benefits of parental educational attainment with an intergenerational dimension: effect on fertility, effect on the quality of parental investments in children, and altered costs of educating children to a given level of achievement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Parent Background, Parent Child Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Intergenerational Factors; Return on Investment
Note: Theme issue titled "Recent Advances in Measuring the Social and Individual Benefits of Education" edited by Walter W. McMahon.