Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227240 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13713
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child and parental skill formation that accounts for this contamination and show how standard estimates of the production of skills are affected. We then use our model to illustrate how contamination in parental measures of child non-cognitive skills affects estimates of child development policies that also directly affect parental skills.
Subjects: 
children
human capital
dynamic factor analysis
measurement
policy
JEL: 
C13
C18
I38
J13
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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