The effect of maternal education on offspring's mental health.

Autor/inn/en	Graeber, Daniel; Schnitzlein, Daniel D.
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	The effect of maternal education on offspring's mental health. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der Einfluss der mütterlichen Bildung auf die psychische Gesundheit ihrer Kinder.
Quelle	Berlin (2019), 33 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin. 1028
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Psychischer Faktor; Soziale Mobilität; Mutter; Sohn; Tochter; Bildungsreform; Schulzeit; Gesundheitszustand; Generationenverhältnis; Jugendlicher; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	"We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To identify the causal effect of maternal education, we exploit exogenous variation in maternal years of schooling, caused by a compulsory schooling law reform in West Germany. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find no evidence of a causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate negative effect of maternal education on the daughters' mental health. We find no effects for the sons. Our investigation of potential mechanisms is consistent with the hypothesis that the negative effect of higher maternal labor supply outweighs the positive effect of an expansion in household resources." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/3