The hypothesis that increases in the schooling of women enhance the human capital of the next generation and thus make a unique contribution to economic growth is assessed on the basis of data describing green revolution India. Estimates are obtained that indicate that a component of the significant and positive relationship between maternal literacy and child schooling in the Indian setting reflects the productivity effect of home teaching and that the existence of this effect, combined with the increase in returns to schooling for men, importantly underlies the expansion of female literary following the onset of the green revolution.

Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth

This study uses cross-sectional data from the 1992 and 1999 Ghana living standards surveys to examine the effects of parental education and household resources on the education of children The results show that parental education and household resources exert positive impacts on children's school attendance While parental schooling impact appears to have fallen over time, the impact of school quality variables, notably, availability of school buildings and trained teachers has increased over time The paper concludes that education matters and has an intergenerational effect Arguably, any sustainable poverty reduction approach cannot ignore the role of education and implications for employment, earnings and social development

Harry A. Sackey

Papers

The Effects of Parental Education and Household Resources on Children's Education in Ghana