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Title: The Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Outcomes: Causal Links and Transmission Channels
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1. Carneiro, Pedro M.
Meghir, Costas
Parey, Matthias
The Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Outcomes: Causal Links and Transmission Channels
Working Paper, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, May 3, 2006.
Also: http://www.tinbergen.nl/cost/london/parey.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Education; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); School Progress; Variables, Instrumental

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Several economists have recently tried to isolate the causal effect of parental schooling on child outcomes through the use of different empirical designs, analogous to those used to examine the impact of schooling on wages, namely twin studies and instrumental variables. In this paper we follow the latter strategy and estimate the effect of maternal schooling on children's outcomes. We use white children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), a rich dataset that contains detailed information on children outcomes at several ages, home environments and maternal characteristics. The available information allows to estimate the importance of maternal schooling for several outcomes of the child at different ages, and potential channels by which an increase in maternal education translates into improved child outcomes. We instrument mother's schooling with the presence of a public four year college in the county of residence at age 14, average tuition in public 4 year colleges in the county of residence at age 17, and average unemployment rate and blue collar wages in the state of residence at age 17.
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Carneiro, Pedro M., Costas Meghir and Matthias Parey. "The Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Outcomes: Causal Links and Transmission Channels." Working Paper, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, May 3, 2006.