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Title: Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Children's Academic Achievement?
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1. Moore, Quinn
Schmidt, Lucie
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

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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.