Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/2074/13936
Title: Evaluating the impact of mothers’ self-esteem on early childhood home environment: Evidence from the NLSY
Authors: Das, Tirthatanmoy 
Keywords: Childhood development;Home environment;Mothers’ self-esteem;Instrumental variables;Orthogonalization
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Ashoka University, New Delhi
Conference: Weekly Economics Seminar with Tirthatanmoy Das, April 16, 2018 @ 2:50 pm - 4:00 pm, Ashoka University, 
Abstract: Estimating causal effects of parental characteristics on determinants of child outcomes is complicated due to endogeneity problems. Utilizing matched mother-child data from National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, this paper integrates an orthogonalization technique to 2SLS-IV regressions. The key findings indicate that a rise in mothers’ self-esteem improves children’s home environment conditions that promote cognitive and emotional developments, with larger effects observed among mothers in socio-economically disadvantaged families. The magnitude of these effects are either higher than or comparable to the effects of mothers’ education and cognitive ability. Additionally, we find that a rise in mothers’ self-esteem improves children’s reading abilities.
URI: https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/2074/13936
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