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Are There Increasing Returns to the Intergenerational Production of Human Capital
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This paper used information on ability and achievement test scores of sibling children, many of whom had mothers who continued their schooling between births, to test the hypothesis that maternal schooling augments the production of children's human capital.Abstract:
Information on ability and achievement test scores of sibling children, many of whom had mothers who continued their schooling between births, is used to test the hypothesis that maternal schooling augments the production of children's human capital, that there are increasing returns to human capital. Estimates from models that take into account heterogeneity in maternal endowments could not reject this hypothesis and suggest benefits to postponed childbearing. In particular, they suggest that postponement of the initiation of childbearing by two years among women who are tenth-graders would result in a 5 percent increase in their children's achievement test scores.read more
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The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a framework for the understanding of many aspects of observed behavior regarding education, health, occupational choice, mobility, etc., as rational investment of present resources for the purpose of enjoying future returns.
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Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth
TL;DR: In this article, a model of growth departs from both the Malthusian and neoclassical approaches by including investments in human capital and assumes that rates of return on human capital investments rise, rather than, decline, as the stock of human capital increases, until the stock becomes large.
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Human capital fertility and economic growth.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assume endogenous fertility and a rising rate of return on human capital as the stock of human capital increases, and they show that when human capital is abundant, rates of return for human capital on human ca...
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Home Investments in Children
TL;DR: In this article, Hansen, Weisbrod, and Scanlon showed that IQ measures are related to human capital inputs in early childhood as well as to inherent genetic ability, and used them as a measure of ability and schooling.
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Sisters, siblings, and mothers: the effect of teen-age childbearing on birth outcomes in a dynamic family context
TL;DR: In this paper, a statistical model of dynamic intra-family investment behavior incorporating endowment heterogeneity is estimated to evaluate alternative estimation procedures that have exploited family and kinship data, which place alternative restrictions on the endowment structure and on behavior, including generalized least squares, instrumental-variables, fixed-effects based on the children of siblings, and sibling fixed effects with instrumental variables.
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