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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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Children having children : early motherhood and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, M.; Favara, Marta - In: Journal of population economics : international … 36 (2023) 3, pp. 1573-1606
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014329803
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Early childhood care and cognitive development
Chaparro, Juan; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, Matthew - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193298
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The relation between maternal work hours and the cognitive development of young school-aged children
Künn-Nelen, Annemarie; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 163 (2015) 2, pp. 203-232
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528472
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Mother's Schooling and Fertility Under Low Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lavy, Victor - 2011
This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … restricted the mobility of Arabs in Israel until the mid-1960's. This change improved access to schooling in communities that … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128898
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Mothers working during preschool years and child skills : does income compensate?
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202079
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Mothers working during preschool years and child skills : does income compensate?
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2020
Increasing mothers' labour supply in a child's preschool years can cause a reduction in time investments that lead to a … negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' work hours increase, income will rise. We ask … variation in both mothers' hours and family income in pre-school years. As expected we find a negative direct effect of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194583
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Mother's Schooling and Fertility under Low Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lavy, Victor - 2011
This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … restricted the mobility of Arabs in Israel until the mid-1960's. This change improved access to schooling in communities that … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461802