%0 Report
        %A Gensowski, Miriam
%A Landersø, Rasmus
%A Dale, Philip
%A Hojen, Anders
%A Justice, Laura
%A Bleses, Dorthe
        %T Public and Parental Investments, and Children's Skill Formation
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16956
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16956
        %X This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a longer-run follow-up study of a randomized controlled trial that increased preschool quality and initially improved skills significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given positive long-run effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents' education by 46%. We show that the heterogeneous treatment effects are a result of differences in parents' responses in terms of investments, reacting to school quality later in childhood. There is also evidence of cross-productivity between reading and math skills and socio-emotional development.
        %K skill formation
%K parental time investments
%K public investments
%K school quality