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Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … decisions, I instrument for individual schooling using cohort-level mean maternal years of schooling from previous decennial … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …
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Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
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children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …
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This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...
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