Agnieszka Postepska, "Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Transmission 
of Education", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2019, 
pp. 606-611.

Data comes from the General Social Survey (http://gss.norc.org/)
conducted since 1972 by NORC at the University of Chicago, with the
support of the National Science Foundation. The data are publicly
available. 

The data abstract used in this paper covers a period between 1977 and
2014. Part of the analysis is performed on the sample between 1977 and
1989. 

Individuals are divided into 5 cohorts:

Cohort 1 born between 1889 and 1909
Cohort 2 born between 1910 and 1929
Cohort 3 born between 1930 and 1949 
Cohort 4 born between 1950 and 1969
Cohort 5 born between 1970 and 1999
  
The full sample consist of 15390 individuals aged 18-89 born in the
United States with known ethnic origin such that:

- they were born in the US 
- they are not Native Americans or African Americans
- they grew up with both parents
- at least 30 other individuals in the same cohort from the same
  origin in the same region of the US are present in the data

All data are in the file ap-data.zip. The data file is in CSV format
as well as in STATA 15 format and it contains the final sample used in
the analysis. Raw data can be downloaded from http://gss.norc.org/ 

Ethnicity is defined as country of origin of the family (variable
ethnic in the GSS).

Variables explanation:

age: 	    age of respondent

agesq: 	    age squared 

educ: 	    years of schooling completed

paeduc:     parental capital defined as fathers years of schooling

paeducav:   ethnic capital defined as the average years of schooling of
            fathers of children in the same cohort, of given ethnicity and
	    in given region

sibsno:     number of siblings

female:     dummy variable indicating whether respondent is a female

fbornUS:    dummy variable indicating whether the father of the respondent
            was born in the US

city16:     dummy variable indicating whether the individual lived in the city
            at the age of 16

south16:    dummy variable indicating whether the individual lived in the
            South at the age of 16

fbornpar:   dummy variable indicating whether at least one of the parents was
            born abroad 

eth2-eth32: dummy variables indicating family's country of origin (Africa is
            omitted)

reg2-re9:   dummy variables indicating region of residence (New England is
            omitted)

yr2-yr24:   dummy variables indicating survey year (1978 is omitted)