Childcare and parenting in the production of early life skills

Sebastian Gallegos and Jorge Luis Garcia ()

Economics of Education Review, 2024, vol. 101, issue C

Abstract: We use data from a randomized early childhood education program to estimate the production technology of early life skills. Estimates indicate that, for more disadvantaged children, parental investment is a more effective input for producing skills than childcare. The reverse is true for the more advantaged. The program increases childcare for all children; it increases parental investment for the more disadvantaged. Therefore, our results indicate that programs stimulating parental investment promote mobility across the distribution of early life skills. We thus micro-found recent studies showing that successful early childhood education programs foster parental investment on top of offering high-quality childcare.

Keywords: Childcare; Early life skills; Parental investment; Parenting; Skill formation; Skill production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102557

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