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Author: Schmidt, Lucie
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Moore, Quinn Schmidt, Lucie |
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Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Children's Academic Achievement? Working Paper, Department of Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, May 2004. Also: http://www.williams.edu/Economics/wp/schmidtmoore_schmidt.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Williams College Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Educational Attainment; Heterogeneity; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Children of educated mothers fare better on a variety of educational outcomes. However, little research has been done on the effects of human capital nvestments undertaken by mothers with children at home. Such investments have a theoretically ambiguous effect on child outcomes, since human capital investment reduces time spent with children but may have positive spillover effects on child investment. Using child-and sibling-fixed effects models to deal with unobserved heterogeneity, we find that cumulative maternal schooling undertaken during a child's lifetime has significant positive effects on child outcomes, and that negative time allocation effects are minimal. |
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Moore, Quinn and Lucie Schmidt. "Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Children's Academic Achievement?" Working Paper, Department of Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, May 2004. |
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Moore, Quinn Schmidt, Lucie |
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Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Their Children's Educational Outcomes? Presented: San Antonio, TX, Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2003. Also: http://www.williams.edu/Economics/wp/schmidtmoore_schmidt.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Southern Economic Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Children, Academic Development; Educational Attainment; Human Capital; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Children of educated mothers fare better on a variety of educational outcomes. However, little research has been done on the effects of human capital investments undertaken by mothers with children at home. Such investments have a theoretically ambiguous effect on child outcomes, since human capital investment reduces time spent with children but may have positive spillover effects on child investment. Using childand sibling-fixed effects models to deal with unobserved heterogeneity, we find that cumulative maternal schooling undertaken during a child's lifetime has significant positive effects on child outcomes, and that negative time allocation effects are minimal. |
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Moore, Quinn and Lucie Schmidt. "Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Their Children's Educational Outcomes?" Presented: San Antonio, TX, Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2003. |
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Moore, Quinn Schmidt, Lucie |
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Do the Human Capital Investments of Young Mothers Affect Their Children's Educational Outcomes? Presented: Atlanta, GA, Population Association of America Meetings, May 2002. Also: http://www.williams.edu/Economics/wp/schmidtmoore_schmidt.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Children, Academic Development; Educational Attainment; Heterogeneity; Human Capital; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Existing literature finds that highly educated mothers tend to have children with superior educational outcomes. However, little work has been done on the effects of human capital investments undertaken by women while they are mothering small children. A simple model of household time allocation would suggest that time spent on human capital investment would reduce time spent with children, and thus negatively impact the child outcomes. Alternatively, maternal time in education and training activities may have positive spillover effects on investment in children, including role model effects and improved ability to help with homework. This paper examines the relationship between human capital investments of young mothers and their children's educational outcomes using data from the Children of the NLSY. Preliminary results suggest that the positive spillover effects on child outcomes dominate the negative effects of time trade-offs. |
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Moore, Quinn and Lucie Schmidt. "Do the Human Capital Investments of Young Mothers Affect Their Children's Educational Outcomes?" Presented: Atlanta, GA, Population Association of America Meetings, May 2002. |