Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth
利用印度绿色革命时期的数据，评估女性教育通过家庭教学提升下一代人力资本、进而促进经济增长的假说，发现母亲识字率与子女教育正相关，部分源于家庭教学的生产力效应。
The hypothesis that increases in the schooling of women enhance the human capital of the next generation and thus make a unique contribution to economic growth is assessed on the basis of data describing green revolution India. Estimates are obtained that indicate that a component of the significant and positive relationship between maternal literacy and child schooling in the Indian setting reflects the productivity effect of home teaching and that the existence of this effect, combined with the increase in returns to schooling for men, importantly underlies the expansion of female literary following the onset of the green revolution.