Interactions between Family and School Environments: Evidence of Dynamic Complementarities?

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IZA Seminar

Place: Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 9, 53113 Bonn

Date: 21.02.2017, 12:00 - 13:30

   

Presentation by 

Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)
   

Abstract:

This paper explores whether conditions during early childhood affect the productivity
of later human capital investments. We use Romanian administrative data to
ask if the benefit of access to better schools is larger for children who experienced better
family environments because their parents had access to abortion. We combine regression
discontinuity and differences-in-differences designs to estimate impacts on a high-stakes
school-leaving exam. Although we find that access to abortion and access to better schools
each have positive impacts, we do not find evidence of significant interactions between these
shocks. While these results suggest the absence of dynamic complementarities in human
capital formation, survey data suggest that they may also reflect behavioral responses by
students and parents.

   
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