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Title: Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Their Children's Educational Outcomes?
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Moore, Quinn Schmidt, Lucie |
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Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Their Children's Educational Outcomes? Presented: San Antonio, TX, Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2003. Also: http://www.williams.edu/Economics/wp/schmidtmoore_schmidt.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Southern Economic Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Children, Academic Development; Educational Attainment; Human Capital; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Children of educated mothers fare better on a variety of educational outcomes. However, little research has been done on the effects of human capital investments 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 childand 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 Their Children's Educational Outcomes?" Presented: San Antonio, TX, Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2003. |