Parental and Child Time Investments and the Cognitive Development of Adolescents

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; Nicoletti, Cheti
• 署名单位: University of Turin; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Bologna; University of York - UK; University of Essex
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/689479
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 565-608
• 关键词: noncognitive skill formation; class size; student-achievement; maternal employment; TECHNOLOGY; matter; specification; allocation; education; homework

摘要

While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of the child's own investments alongside that of the parents. By using the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we model the cognitive production function for adolescents using an augmented value-added model and adopt an estimation method that takes account of unobserved child characteristics. We find that a child's own investments made during adolescence matter more than the mother's. Our empirical results appear to be robust to several sensitivity checks.