Latent Human Capital: How Early Investments in Parents Buffer Against Future Schooling Shocks -- by Shruti Jha, John A. List, Rebecca C. Royer, Anya Samek

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  • Acknowledgements and Disclosures

    We thank Kristin Troutman, Adeline Sutton, Tim First and several research assistants in the Behavioral and Experimental Economics (BEE) Research Group for valuable research assistance. This research was funded by the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, the Arnold Foundation and by NIH grant 1R01DK114238. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.


  • Citation and Citation DataCopy Citation Shruti Jha, John A. List, Rebecca C. Royer, and Anya Samek, "Latent Human Capital: How Early Investments in Parents Buffer Against Future Schooling Shocks," NBER Working Paper 35851 (2026), https://doi.org/10.3386/w35851. Copy to Clipboard Download Citation
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