MATERNAL EDUCATION, HOME ENVIRONMENTS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Yale University; University of Essex
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01096.x
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 123-160
• 关键词: womens schooling raise; next-generation; returns; identification; TECHNOLOGY; mobility; sample; black

摘要

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.