Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234677 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01088
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are reinforcing and likely to be mediating the long-run effects.
Subjects: 
Early Life Shocks
Long-run Outcomes
Skills
Parental Investments
Teachers
College Attendance
Test Scores
Low-income
Developing Country
JEL: 
I21
I26
I28
J24
J31
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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