%0 Report
        %A Macmillan, Lindsey
%A Tominey, Emma
        %T Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12792
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12792
        %X 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. 
        %K socio-emotional skills
%K test scores
%K child development
%K decomposition
%K parental inputs
%K ALSPAC