TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gensowski, Miriam
AU  - Landersø, Rasmus
AU  - Dale, Philip
AU  - Hojen, Anders
AU  - Justice, Laura
AU  - Bleses, Dorthe
        TI  - Public and Parental Investments, and Children's Skill Formation
        PY  - 2024/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16956
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16956
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - skill formation
KW  - parental time investments
KW  - public investments
KW  - school quality
        ER  -