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Author: Restrepo, Brandon J.
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Essays on Human Capital Investment Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, Department of Economics, 2012 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birthweight; CESD (Depression Scale); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Chores (see Housework); Digit Span (also see Memory for Digit Span - WISC); Discipline; Family Income; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Human Capital; Mothers, Education; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Pearlin Mastery Scale; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Punishment, Corporal; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Siblings; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Verbal Memory (McCarthy Scale) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. My dissertation consists of three essays concerning investment in human capital. In my first essay, "Who Compensates and Who Reinforces? Parental Investment Responses to Child Endowment Shocks," I examine whether parental investment in the human capital of low birth weight children differs by parental education and income. In my second essay, "Does Fetal Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Affect a Child's Adult Outcomes?," I examine whether fetal exposure to tobacco smoke affects long-run outcomes such as schooling attainment, employment, and labor market earnings. In my third essay, "A New Look at the Effect of Credit Constraints on College Attendance," I examine whether credit constraints affect college attendance. |
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Restrepo, Brandon J. Essays on Human Capital Investment. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, Department of Economics, 2012. |
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Parental Investment Responses to a Low Birth Weight Outcome: Who Compensates and Who Reinforces? Journal of Population Economics 29,4 (October 2016): 969-989. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-016-0590-3 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Birthweight; Educational Attainment; High School Dropouts; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mothers, Education; Parental Investments Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study analyzes how parental investment responds to a low birth weight (LBW) outcome and finds important differences in investment responses by maternal education. High school dropouts reinforce a LBW outcome by providing less investment in the human capital of their LBW children relative to their normal birth weight children whereas higher educated mothers compensate by investing more in their LBW children. In addition, an increase in the number of LBW siblings present in the home raises investment in a child, which is consistent with reinforcement, but this positive effect tends to be concentrated among high school dropouts. These results suggest that studies analyzing the effects of LBW on child outcomes that do not account for heterogeneity in investment responses to a LBW outcome by maternal education may overestimate effects of LBW on child outcomes for those born to low-educated mothers and underestimate such effects for those born to high-educated mothers. |
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Restrepo, Brandon J. "Parental Investment Responses to a Low Birth Weight Outcome: Who Compensates and Who Reinforces?" Journal of Population Economics 29,4 (October 2016): 969-989.
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