Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India
利用印度面板数据，研究发现年轻母亲的孩子身高较矮，尤其对极年轻母亲所生女孩影响更大，且数学成绩可能更差，但身高差距随年龄增长减弱。
Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital, contributing to the scarce evidence on this phenomenon, especially in the context of a developing country. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for unobserved differences between mothers and employs a variety of empirical strategies to address remaining sibling-specific concerns. Our results indicate that children born to young mothers are shorter for their age, with stronger effects for girls born to very young mothers. We also find some evidence suggesting that children born to very young mothers perform worse in math. By exploring the evolution of effects over time for the first time in the literature, we find that the height effect weakens as children age. Further analysis suggests both biological and behavioral factors as transmission channels. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00148-023-00946-0.