@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp12792,
            	author={Macmillan, Lindsey and Tominey, Emma},
            	title={Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development},
            	year={2019},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={12792},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12792},
	abstract={By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to explore the role of parental inputs as mechanisms. The reform shifted mothers' education from no, to a low level of qualifications. Our results suggest that financial resources are an important channel, explaining up to 59% of the effect on child cognitive skills. On top of this, parental investments of health behaviours during pregnancy and monetary investments at home explain a further 14% of the test score gaps. },
	keywords={socio-emotional skills;test scores;child development;decomposition;parental inputs;ALSPAC},
            }