Macmillan, Lindsey;
Tominey, Emma;
(2019)
Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development.
(IZA Discussion Paper
12792).
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics: Bonn, Germany.
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Abstract
By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to explore the role of parental inputs as mechanisms. The reform shifted mothers' education from no, to a low level of qualifications. Our results suggest that financial resources are an important channel, explaining up to 59% of the effect on child cognitive skills. On top of this, parental investments of health behaviours during pregnancy and monetary investments at home explain a further 14% of the test score gaps.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.3495769 |
| Publisher version: | https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12792/parental... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | child development, test scores, socio-emotional skills, parental inputs, decomposition, ALSPAC |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership > Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152425 |
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