Mama Knows (and Does) Best : Maternal Schooling Opportunities and Child Development in Indonesia
This paper leverages quasi-experimental variation in increased access to basic formal education, introduced by a large-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the pr...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/304421597151764871/Mama-Knows-and-Does-Best-Maternal-Schooling-Opportunities-and-Child-Development-in-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34352 |
| Summary: | This paper leverages quasi-experimental
variation in increased access to basic formal education,
introduced by a large-scale school construction program in
Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the
children of women targeted by the program. Novel and rich
data allow the analysis of a range of health, cognitive and
socio-emotional development outcomes for children ages 6 to
8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to
schooling has positive and multidimensional effects on
children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom
of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights from
economics, psychology, and sociology, the paper examines
pathways for these impacts. Evidence suggests that mothers
who were exposed to more schooling opportunities during
childhood demonstrate less hostility toward their children
when parenting and also invest more in their children's
preschool education. |
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