TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Moroni, Gloria
AU  - Nicoletti, Cheti
AU  - Tominey, Emma
        TI  - Child Socio-Emotional Skills: The Role of Parental Inputs
        PY  - 2019/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12432
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12432
        AB  - Informed by the psychological literature and our empirical evidence we provide new insights into the technology of socio-emotional skill formation in middle childhood. In line with economic evidence, increasing parental inputs that enrich the child home environment and reduce stress has larger returns for children with higher socio-emotional skills in early childhood (complementarity), but only for levels of inputs that are high. For low levels of inputs, i.e. levels implying a stressful home environment, an increase has a higher return for children with lower socio-emotional skills in early childhood (substitutability). Consequently, well targeted policies can reduce middle childhood socio-emotional gaps.
        KW  - child behavioural disorders
KW  - time investment
KW  - mother's mental health
KW  - parenting styles
KW  - substitutabilities
KW  - complementarities
KW  - socio-emotional skills
KW  - diathesis-stress hypothesis
        ER  -