Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
Uppsala University, Department of Economics
No 2012:20: Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja ()
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Pedro Carneiro: University College London, Postal: Institute for Fiscal Studies, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
Rita Ginja: Department of Economics, Postal: Department of Economics, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract: This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the literature focusing on non-durable expenditure, we find that there is only partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Nevertheless, the magnitude of the estimated responses is small. A permanent shock corresponding to 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation.
Keywords: Insurance; human capital; consumption
32 pages, December 30, 2012
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