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Mother’s years of schooling and their investment in early education of children
Wakano, Ayako - 2021
of children. Similar discussions are found in the past literature, which empirically shows the intergenerational … education link between parents and their children. While most of those findings are geographically limited to the industrialized … suggests that the marginal effect of years of education increases investment for their children with statistical significance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228444
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021924
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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument
Winters, John V. - 2014
Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434601
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Intergenerational transmission of inequality : maternal endowments, investments, and birth outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391200
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421186
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Maternal Investments in Children : The Role of Expected Effort and Returns
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2020
We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838491
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054653
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Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital
Menta, Giorgia; Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2022
depression reduces their children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill scores by 5 to 7% of a SD throughout adolescence. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471350
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447269