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Do teachers make better parents? The differential performance of teachers’ children at school

Author(s)
Denny, Kevin  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/947
Date Issued
2005-03
Date Available
2009-03-10T15:04:51Z
Abstract
This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using PISA data for Great Britain and Ireland. It examines whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ability. The results show that children whose fathers teach at third level or whose mothers teach at second level do better and these effects are greater than effects of sex or family structure. The paper also analyses whether teenagers are more likely to be helped with their schoolwork if their parents are educators. In both countries only mothers who are educators are more likely to do so. The evidence tends to suggest that where teenagers benefit from a parent as a teacher it is through specific assistance from the mother and a more general effect on the home environment from the father.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
University College Dublin. Geary Institute
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP05/05
UCD Geary Institute Discussion Paper Series
2005/04
Copyright (Published Version)
UCD School of Economics 2005
Subjects

Teachers

PISA

Parents

Literacy

Subject – LCSH
Children of teachers
Programme for International Student Assessment
Literacy
Web versions
http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2005/WP05.05.pdf
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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