Parental and child time investments and the cognitive development of adolescents

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

April 15, 2017

Summary:

While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of 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.

Published in

Journal of Labor Economics

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 35 , p.565 -608

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/689479

ISSN

734306

Subjects

#523924

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