全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w22233
来源ID	Working Paper 22233
	Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China
	Jessica Leight; Elaine M. Liu
发表日期	2016-05-09
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	The importance of non-cognitive skills in determining long-term human capital and labor market outcomes is widely acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to non-cognitive skills early in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of both externalizing challenges (behavioral problems and aggression) and internalizing challenges (anxiety and withdrawal). The results suggest that on average, parents invest no more in terms of educational expenditure in children who have better non-cognitive skills relative to their siblings. However, there is significant heterogeneity with respect to maternal education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more educated mothers compensate for these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments lead to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w22233
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579907
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jessica Leight,Elaine M. Liu. Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China. 2016.

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