The Response of Parental Time Investments to the Child's Skills and Health

Cheti Nicoletti and Valentina Tonei ()
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Valentina Tonei: University of Southampton

No 10993, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Recent empirical research in family economics has shown the importance of parental investments on child's human capital development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with their child doing formative activities. By adopting a child fixed-effect instrumental variable estimation to address endogeneity issues, we find that parents reinforce for differences in their child's socio-emotional skills, compensate for changes in her physical health, and are neutral to variation in her cognitive skills.

Keywords: skills; quality time; family investment; time-use; child development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C26 D13 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2017-09
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Published - published as 'Do parental time investments react to changes in child’s skills and health?' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 127, 103491

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