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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP6517
	DP6517 Analyzing Strongly Periodic Series in the Frequency Domain: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches with Applications
	Michael Artis; Dilip M Nachane; Mathias Hoffmann; Jose Garcia Clavel
发表日期	2007-10-12
出版年	2007
语种	英语
摘要	We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioural problems, grade repetition and obesity. We address endogeneity of maternal schooling by instrumenting with variation in schooling costs when the mother grew up. Using matched data from the female participants of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional year of mother's schooling increases the child's performance on a standardized math test by almost 0.1 of a standard deviation, and reduces the incidence of behavioural problems. 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 find that income effects, delayed childbearing, and assortative mating are likely to be important, and we show that maternal education leads to substantial differences in maternal labour supply. We investigate heterogeneity in returns, and we present results focusing both on very early stages in the child's life as well as adolescent outcomes. We present a falsification exercise to support the validity of our instruments, and our results are found to be robust in a sensitivity analysis. We discuss policy implications and relate our findings to intergenerational mobility.
主题	Labour Economics
关键词	Child development Education Intergenerational mobility
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp6517
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535356
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michael Artis,Dilip M Nachane,Mathias Hoffmann,et al. DP6517 Analyzing Strongly Periodic Series in the Frequency Domain: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches with Applications. 2007.