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Title: Three Essays on Families, Children and Human Capital Formation
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Rosales-Rueda, Maria Fernanda |
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Three Essays on Families, Children and Human Capital Formation Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago, 2014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Birth Order; Birthweight; Child Health, Limiting Condition(s); Children, Mental Health; Family Resources; Family Structure; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Behavior; Parental Investments; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control); Self-Esteem; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. My dissertation investigates the interactions between family investments, early-life shocks and human capital among children. Understanding the role of the family has important implications for the design of social interventions that attempt to remediate adverse early childhood environments. In the second essay, I consider how U.S. families choose to invest in response to the onset of a health condition in a child. Family investments can reinforce, or compensate for the occurrence of a health-limiting condition. The results from this paper shed light on the importance of incorporating the family unit as part of public policies that involve children with serious health conditions. |
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Rosales-Rueda, Maria Fernanda. Three Essays on Families, Children and Human Capital Formation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago, 2014. |