Multigenerational Effects of Education Reform: Mother's Education and Children's Human Capital in Nepal

Vinish Shrestha and Rashesh Shrestha

No 2017-03, Working Papers from Towson University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The impact of national efforts to increase supply of education, such as Nepal's National Education System Plan, may vary across social groups due to differences in social factors that determine access to and demand for education. In this paper, we study the heterogeneous impact of this reform across gender and caste groups – two important social dimensions in Nepal's context – over two generations. We use data from the Nepal National Population and Housing Census 2011 and implement a difference- in-differences framework that utilizes across district variation in intensity of the reform measured by placement of trained teachers per 100 children and across cohort variation in exposure determined by birth year. We find that the reform improved females' education attainment, but such positive effects are not present among women belonging to lower caste sub-groups. In addition, we find that the reform had positive effects on schooling of the next generation; the multigenerational effects are also concentrated among girls from higher caste households. We validate our main findings by conducting a placebo exercises on a sample of individuals who had surpassed their school going age by the time of the reform.

Keywords: Multigenerational Effect; Maternal Education; Children's Human Capital; Schooling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 I30 J20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 75 pages
Date: 2017-05, Revised 2019-01
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