Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Child Human Capital

Assessing the Impact of Remittances on Schooling: the Mexican Experience

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1850033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Borraz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Census Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Child Human Capital ◽  
The Impact

This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on child human capital in Mexico. During the 90’s and in particular after the “tequila crisis” Mexican workers increased the remittances that were sent to their homes from the United States. I will analyze the effect of such increasing source of income on child human capital decisions. Contrary to Hanson and Woodruff (2003) the results obtained from Census data indicate a positive and small effect of remittances on schooling only for children living in cities with fewer than 2,500 inhabitants and with mothers with a very low level of education. However its magnitude is not substantial.

Climatic Shocks and Child Human Capital: Evidence from Ethiopia

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 594-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Hyder Baloch ◽  
Jere R Behrman
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Child Human Capital

scholarly journals Maternal depression and child human capital: A genetic instrumental-variable approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgia Menta ◽  
Anthony Lepinteur ◽  
Andrew E. Clark ◽  
Simone Ghislandi ◽  
Conchita D’Ambrosio
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Maternal Depression ◽  
Genetic Variants ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Instrumental Variable ◽  
Maternal Transmission ◽  
Variable Approach ◽  
Sensitivity Tests ◽  
Child Human Capital ◽  
Instrumental Variable Approach

AbstractWe here address the causal relationship between maternal depression and child human capital using UK cohort data. We exploit the conditionally-exogenous variation in mothers’ genomes in an instrumental-variable approach, and describe the conditions under which mother’s genetic variants can be used as valid instruments. An additional episode of maternal depression between the child’s birth up to age nine reduces both their cognitive and non-cognitive skills by 20 to 45% of a SD throughout adolescence. Our results are robust to a battery of sensitivity tests addressing, among others, concerns about pleiotropy and the maternal transmission of genes to her child.

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