New research shows that raising the level of mothers’ education pays large intergenerational returns with kids benefiting, for example, from extra parental investment in their education. Policies that promote women’s education should take account of this in their design and evaluation.
Authors
Research Fellow Yale University
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.
Research Fellow University College London
Pedro is a Professor of Economics at University College London and an economist in the IFS' Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap).
Research Fellow University of Surrey
Matthias is a research Fellow of the IFS, a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey and a Research Fellow at the IZA.
Comment details
- Publisher
- Vox
Suggested citation
P, Carneiro and C, Meghir and M, Parey. (2007). Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents [Comment] Vox. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/maternal-education-home-environments-and-development-children-and-adolescents (accessed: 16 May 2024).
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