TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Macmillan, Lindsey
AU  - Tominey, Emma
        TI  - Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development
        PY  - 2019/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12792
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12792
        AB  - 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. 
        KW  - socio-emotional skills
KW  - test scores
KW  - child development
KW  - decomposition
KW  - parental inputs
KW  - ALSPAC
        ER  -