Evaluating the Impact of Mothers' Self-esteem on Early Childhood Home Environment: Evidence from NLSY

Tirthatanmoy Das () and Kabir Dasgupta ()
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Tirthatanmoy Das: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India and IZA
Kabir Dasgupta: New Zealand Work Reserach Institute, Auckland University of Technology
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Working Papers from Auckland University of Technology, Department of Economics

Abstract: Estimating causal effects of parental characteristics on determinants of child outcomes is complicated due to endogeneity problems. Utilizing matched mother-child data from National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, this paper integrates an orthogonalization technique to 2SLS-IV regressions. The key findings indicate that a rise in mothers’ selfesteem improves children’s home environment conditions that promote cognitive and emotional developments, with larger effects observed among mothers in socio-economically disadvantaged families. The magnitude of these effects are either higher than or comparable to the effects of mothers’ education and cognitive ability. Additionally, we find that a rise in mothers' self-esteem improves children's reading abilities.

Keywords: Childhood Development; Home environment; Mothers' self-esteem; Instrumental variables; Orthogonalization. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03, Revised 2019-10
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