TY  - GEN
AU  - Calderón, María Cecilia
AU  - Hoddinott, John
TI  - The Inter-Generational Transmission of Cognitive Abilities in Guatemala
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/08/23
DO  - 10.18235/0011205
AB  - This paper examines early childhood development (ECD) outcomes and their association with family characteristics, investments, and environmental factors, with particular emphasis on the inter- generational transmission of cognitive abilities. The paper examines the causal relationship between parental cognitive abilities and ECD outcomes of their offspring using a rich data set from rural Guatemala that can account for such unobservable factors. A 10 percent increase in maternal Raven's scores increase children's Raven's scores by 7.8 percent. A 10 percent increase in maternal reading and vocabulary skills increases children's score on a standard vocabulary test by 5 percent. Effects are larger for older children, and the impact of maternal cognitive skills is larger than for paternal skills.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0011205
ER  -