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Title: Do the Human Capital Investments of Young Mothers Affect Their Children's Educational Outcomes?
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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. |