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Title: Maternal Education, Home Environments, and the Development of Children and Adolescents
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Carneiro, Pedro Meghir, Costas Parey, Matthias |
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Maternal Education, Home Environments, and the Development of Children and Adolescents Journal of the European Economic Association 11, s1 (January 2013): 123-160. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01096.x/abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Achievement; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Body Mass Index (BMI); Cognitive Development; Grade Retention/Repeat Grade; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Education; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Obesity; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children’s cognitive achievement, behavioral problems, grade repetition, and obesity, using matched data from the female participants of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children. We address the endogeneity of maternal schooling by instrumenting it with variation in schooling costs during the mother’s adolescence. Our results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. Our data set allows us to study a large array of channels which may transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at different ages of the child. We discuss policy implications and relate our findings to the literature on intergenerational mobility. © 2013 European Economic Association |
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Carneiro, Pedro, Costas Meghir and Matthias Parey. "Maternal Education, Home Environments, and the Development of Children and Adolescents." Journal of the European Economic Association 11, s1 (January 2013): 123-160.
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