%0 Report
        %A Bono, Emilia Del
%A Francesconi, Marco
%A Kelly, Yvonne
%A Sacker, Amanda
        %T Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8608
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8608
        %X Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this paper estimates the effect of maternal time inputs on early child development. We find that maternal time is a quantitatively important determinant of skill formation and that its effect declines with child age. There is evidence of a long shadow of the effect of early maternal time inputs on later outcomes, especially in the case of cognitive skill development. In the case of non-cognitive development, this effect disappears when we account for skill persistence.
        %K education production functions
%K early interventions
%K cognitive and non-cognitive skill formation