TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gupta, Nabanita Datta
AU  - Lausten, Mette
AU  - Pozzoli, Dario
        TI  - Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning
        PY  - 2012/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6962
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6962
        AB  - We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are driven by noisy evaluations or by systematic bias, focusing on the role of parental characteristics and response heterogeneity. We then explicitly assess the relative importance of the mother's versus the father's assessments in explaining child academic performance and diagnosed mental health to investigate whether one parent is systematically a better informant of their child's outcomes than the other.
        KW  - child development
KW  - informant discrepancies
KW  - reporting bias
        ER  -