Chiara Pronzato premiata da UWIN

Chiara Pronzato (Università di Torino e Centro Dondena) è una delle vincitrici dell'UWIN Best Paper Award, promosso da UniCredit & Universities Foundation in collaborazione con UniCredit Women's International Network (UWIN) per il paper An Examination of Paternal and Maternal Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling.

Pronzato e le altre due vincitrici (Pamela Campa della Stockholm University e Michelle Rendall della Universitaet Zuerich) hanno presentato i loro lavori all'Università Bocconi nel corso dell'incontro Gender Equality in Europe venerdì 18 novembre.

L'abstract del paper di Pronzato: More educated parents are observed to have better educated children. However, previous research has found conflicting results regarding the role of fathers and mothers: in most cases, a strong positive paternal effect was found with a negligible maternal effect; in fewer cases, opposite results were found. In this paper, I use a sample of Norwegian twins to evaluate the impact of sample size and sample selection on the estimates' robustness: results concerning the effect of mother's education are very sensitive to the sample size, while the selection of the sample seems to be a key to reconciling previous results.