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Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for mother unobserved heterogeneity and explores for the first time the evolution of effects over time, covering the offspring phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect on health weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges in early adolescence. Further analysis suggests both biological and behavioral factors as transmission channels.
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Englisch
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2020: Gender Economics
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Wirtschaft
Health and Economic Development
Education and Economic Development
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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Adolescent Motherhood
Human Capital
Child Development
Cognition
Health
Nutrition
Gender
Parenting
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Perez Alvarez, Marcello
Favara, Marta
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
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Kiel, Hamburg
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2020
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10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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- Konferenzbeitrag
Associated
- Perez Alvarez, Marcello
- Favara, Marta
- ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Time of origin
- 2020
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