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ArticleJournal of population economics2023

Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India.

M Perez-Alvarez, M Favara

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Article in Journal of population economics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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M Perez-AlvarezUniversity of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiteitscomplex, 9747 Groningen, AJ Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1520-4757
M FavaraUniversity of Oxford, Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB UK.

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Abstract

Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital, contributing to the scarce evidence on this phenomenon, especially in the context of a developing country. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for unobserved differences between mothers and employs a variety of empirical strategies to address remaining sibling-specific concerns. Our results indicate that children born to young mothers are shorter for their age, with stronger effects for girls born to very young mothers. We also find some evidence suggesting that children born to very young mothers perform worse in math. By exploring the evolution of effects over time for the first time in the literature, we find that the height effect weakens as children age. Further analysis suggests both biological and behavioral factors as transmission channels. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00148-023-00946-0.

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CognitionEarly motherhoodFertilityGenderHealthHuman capital

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PMID37223457
PMCPMC10043537

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