Type of Document Dissertation Author Chen, Huei-Ling III Author's Email Address huchentw@yahoo.com URN etd-41998-104651 Title Empirical Studies of Human Capital Formation: The Role of Family, Sibling, and Neighborhood Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department Economics Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Charles Michalopoulos Gautam Hazarika Russell Murphy Stuart Rosenthal Djavad Salehi-Isfahani chair Keywords
- household model
- human capital
- neighborhood effect
- sibling effect
- rate of return
Date of Defense 1998-05-01 Availability unrestricted Abstract The formation of human capital is the main issue in this
dissertation. More specifically, this dissertation
discusses two alternative types of transferring human
capital, in contrast to the transfer of human capital from
parents to their children’s education. These two types of
transfer are sibling effect and neighborhood effect on children’s
education. Chapter 1 discusses the sibling effect on
children’s education, ”Household Models and Formations of
Human Capital with Sibling Effect in Iran.” The
neighborhood effect on children’s education will be
discussed in Chapter 2, “Intergenerational Transfer of Human
Capital from Parents to Children: Does Neighborhood Matter?”
Chapter 3 measures and describes the rate of return on human
capital in Taiwan, “Rate of Return on Education by Using
Sibling Data from Taiwan.”
My empirical results show the following findings. First,
the presence of older sisters increases younger sisters’ and
brothers’ education. After controlling the resource
contribution factor, the empirical result suggests that a
role model effect exists between daughters -- the education
of older sisters benefits younger sisters in Iran. Second,
assuming that the unobserved parent’s preference on
children’s education is not correlated to the unobserved
parent’s preference on neighborhood, our results suggest
that choosing a “good” neighborhood is important for
children’s education in Iran. Third, the results suggest
that in 1990 data from Taiwan, upward bias in the rate of
return on schooling due to the omission of family background
factors is significant.
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