Mothers바카라 사이트™ human capital and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The impact of mothers바카라 사이트™ intellectual human capital and long-run nutritional status on children바카라 사이트™s human capital Guatemala. CPRC Working Paper No. 160.
Abstract
Many prior studies find significant cross-sectional positive ordinary least squares (OLS) associations between maternal human capital (usually maternal schooling attainment) and children바카라 사이트™s human capital (usually children바카라 사이트™s schooling, but in some cases children바카라 사이트™s nutritional status). This paper uses rich Guatemalan longitudinal data collected over 35 years to explore several limitations of these 바카라 사이트˜standard바카라 사이트™ estimates. The preferred estimates developed herein suggest that: (1) maternal human capital is more important than suggested by the standard estimates; (2) maternal cognitive skills have a greater impact than maternal schooling attainment on children바카라 사이트™s biological human capital; and (3) for some important indicators of children바카라 사이트™s human capital, maternal biological capital has larger effect sizes than maternal intellectual capital (schooling and cognitive skills). These results imply that breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty, malnutrition and intellectual deprivation through investments in women바카라 사이트™s human capital may be more effective than previously suggested, but will require approaches that account for dimensions of women바카라 사이트™s human capital beyond just their schooling. Effective interventions to improve women바카라 사이트™s biological and intellectual human capital often begin in utero or in early childhood; thus, their realisation will take longer than if more schooling were the only relevant channel.
Citation
CPRC Working Paper No. 160, Chronic Poverty Research Centre, London, UK, ISBN: 978-1-906433-62-8, 40 pp.
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