Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215188 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12792
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
child development
test scores
socio-emotional skills
parental inputs
decomposition
ALSPAC
JEL: 
I24
J13
D10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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