Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67177 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6962
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are driven by noisy evaluations or by systematic bias, focusing on the role of parental characteristics and response heterogeneity. We then explicitly assess the relative importance of the mother's versus the father's assessments in explaining child academic performance and diagnosed mental health to investigate whether one parent is systematically a better informant of their child's outcomes than the other.
Subjects: 
child development
informant discrepancies
reporting bias
JEL: 
I12
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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