Carneiro, PM;
Ginja, R;
(2016)
Partial Insurance and Investments in Children.
The Economic Journal
, 126
(596)
F66-F95.
10.1111/ecoj.12421.
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Abstract
This article 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, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We find that there is partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks but the magnitude of the estimated responses is small. We cannot reject the hypothesis of full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is that insurance possibilities are limited but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments over time results in small reactions of these investments to income shocks, especially at later ages.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Partial Insurance and Investments in Children |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12421 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12421 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Insurance, human capital, consumption |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1519699 |
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