Table 10.

Stress and Intergenerational Correlations in Human Capital

Dependent Variable= Ln(offspring education)	(1)	(2)	(3)
Ln(maternal education)	0.122 [0.0243]	0.119 [0.0240]	0.0958 [0.0257]
Ln(maternal education)*high cortisol			0.131 [0.0559]
High (top quintile) prenatal cortisol		−0.0202 [0.0100]	−0.326 [0.134]
Ln(maternal education)*cortisol
Cortisol
Constant	2.279 [0.0654]	2.272 [0.103]	2.346 [0.108]
Observations	981	981	981
R-squared	0.194	0.198	0.205
Sample	Full	Full	Full
Full controls	Y	Y	Y
Maternal FE included	N	N	N

Note: Robust standard errors in brackets

Full controls include all controls listed in Table 3, Top Panel

1 percent increase in maternal education leads to a 0.122 percent increase in offspring education if highly stressed, 1 percent increase in maternal education leads to a 0.22 percent increase in offspring education