Plausibly Exogenous [856] - Transmission of Human Capital (05/24/2022)

LHS Variable
Birth outcomes

RHS Variable
Maternal education

Source of Exogenous Variation
Availability of colleges in the woman's county in her seventeenth year as an instrument for maternal education

- Currie and Moretti (2003), “Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings”