MATERNAL EDUCATION, HOME ENVIRONMENTS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
MATERNAL EDUCATION, HOME ENVIRONMENTS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01096.x
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Parey, Matthias
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作者：
Carneiro, Pedro;Meghir, Costas;Parey, Matthias
我们使用1979年全国青年纵向调查(NLSY79)的女性参与者及其子女的配对数据，研究了母亲教育对儿童认知成就、行为问题、年级重复和肥胖的代际影响。我们通过利用母亲青春期教育成本的变化来解决母亲教育的内生性问题。我们的结果显示，教育在代际间获得了可观的回报。我们的数据集使我们能够研究大量渠道，这些渠道可能会将母亲教育的效果传递给孩子，包括家庭环境和父母在孩子不同年龄的投资。我们讨论了政策含义，并将我们的发现与关于代际流动性的文献联系起来。
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.