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Source: Department of Economics, Williams College
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Moore, Quinn Schmidt, Lucie |
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Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Children's Academic Achievement? Working Paper, Department of Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, May 2004. Also: http://www.williams.edu/Economics/wp/schmidtmoore_schmidt.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Williams College Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Educational Attainment; Heterogeneity; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Children of educated mothers fare better on a variety of educational outcomes. However, little research has been done on the effects of human capital nvestments undertaken by mothers with children at home. Such investments have a theoretically ambiguous effect on child outcomes, since human capital investment reduces time spent with children but may have positive spillover effects on child investment. Using child-and sibling-fixed effects models to deal with unobserved heterogeneity, we find that cumulative maternal schooling undertaken during a child's lifetime has significant positive effects on child outcomes, and that negative time allocation effects are minimal. |
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Moore, Quinn and Lucie Schmidt. "Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Children's Academic Achievement?" Working Paper, Department of Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, May 2004. |
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Xie, Leiyu (Zoe) |
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How Do the Impacts of Parental Divorce on Children's Educational and Labor Market Outcomes Change Based on Parents' Socioeconomic Backgrounds? Honors Thesis (B.A.), Department of Economics, Williams College, May 2010 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Williams College Keyword(s): Divorce; Geographical Variation; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Marital Status; Mothers, Income; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); School Progress; State-Level Data/Policy; Undergraduate Research; Variables, Instrumental Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. One in two marriages in the United States ends in divorce. Close to 30% of children under 18 live in single-parent households. Disruption of many traditional households raises the question of how divorce affects children's later outcomes. This paper investigates the impacts of parental divorce on children's educational and labor market outcomes, and studies the mitigating effects associated with parents' socioeconomic backgrounds. Using NLSY79-Child data, I find that divorce reduces children's educational achievements, and that mother's education and annual earnings mitigate this impact. Little evidence is found for any significant impact of divorce on children's labor market outcomes. In general, divorce affects girls more, and parental resources also benefit girls more than boys. |
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Xie, Leiyu (Zoe). "How Do the Impacts of Parental Divorce on Children's Educational and Labor Market Outcomes Change Based on Parents' Socioeconomic Backgrounds?" Honors Thesis (B.A.), Department of Economics, Williams College, May 2010. |