Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Skill Formation Predict Investments in Children One Year Later.

ABSTRACT: A growing literature reports significant socio-economic gaps in investments in the human capital of young children. Because the returns to these investments may be huge, parenting programs attempt to improve children's environments by increasing parental expectations about the importance of investments for their children's human capital formation. We contribute to this literature by investigating the relevance of maternal subjective expectations (MSE) about the technology of skill formation in predicting investments in the human capital of children. We develop and implement a framework to elicit and analyze MSE data. We launch a longitudinal study with 822 participants, all of whom were women in the second trimester of their first pregnancy at the date of enrollment. In the first wave of t

SUBMITTER: Cunha F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9678352 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature