TY - JOUR
T1 - Human capital spillovers in families
T2 - Do parents learn from or lean on their children?
AU - Kuziemko, Ilyana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - I model how children’s acquisition of a given form of human capital incentivizes adults in their household to either learn from them (if children can teach the skill to adults, adults’ cost of learning falls) or lean on them (if children’s human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production, adults’ benefit from learning falls). Using variation in compliance with an English-immersion mandate in California schools, I find that English instruction improved immigrant children’s English proficiency but discouraged adults living with them from acquiring the language. Whether family members “learn” or “lean” affects the externalities associated with education policies.
AB - I model how children’s acquisition of a given form of human capital incentivizes adults in their household to either learn from them (if children can teach the skill to adults, adults’ cost of learning falls) or lean on them (if children’s human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production, adults’ benefit from learning falls). Using variation in compliance with an English-immersion mandate in California schools, I find that English instruction improved immigrant children’s English proficiency but discouraged adults living with them from acquiring the language. Whether family members “learn” or “lean” affects the externalities associated with education policies.
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U2 - 10.1086/677231
DO - 10.1086/677231
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84929909298
SN - 0734-306X
VL - 32
SP - 755
EP - 786
JO - Journal of Labor Economics
JF - Journal of Labor Economics
IS - 4
ER -