Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents

Published on 22 November 2007

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.

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

    Costas Meghir
    Costas Meghir

    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.

    Pedro Carneiro
    Pedro Carneiro

    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).

    Matthias Parey
    Matthias Parey

    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.

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    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: 26 March 2025).

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