Intergenerational Human Capital Spillovers: Indonesia's School Construction and Its Effects on the Next Generation
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 109,
May 2019
(pp. 243-49)
Abstract
We analyze the effects of increased access to education in one generation on human capital outcomes in the next generation. Using longitudinal data, we exploit the geographical and cohort variations in exposure to a massive primary school construction program in the 1970s in Indonesia. We show that the school building project increases primary school completion rates among both men and women. We find that children whose mothers were exposed to the school building project score higher on the national primary school examination, suggesting the importance of maternal education in the intergenerational transmission of human capital.Citation
Mazumder, Bhashkar, Maria Rosales-Rueda, and Margaret Triyana. 2019. "Intergenerational Human Capital Spillovers: Indonesia's School Construction and Its Effects on the Next Generation." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 243-49. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20191059Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- H52 National Government Expenditures and Education
- I21 Analysis of Education
- I25 Education and Economic Development
- I28 Education: Government Policy
- J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration