Systematic Differences in How Mothers Assess Their Children and Implications for Developmental Research

Cory Koedel () and Teerachat Techapaisarnjaroenkit
Additional contact information
Cory Koedel: Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, https://economics.missouri.edu/people/koedel

No 1124, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Abstract: We examine agreeability between mothers and caregivers in their assessments of children’s non-cognitive development. We extend the standard agreeability framework and carefully consider systematic directional differences between mothers and caregivers across maternal subgroups. Minority mothers provide consistently more-favorable evaluations of their children than childcare providers. Holding race constant, mothers who raise their children outside of an intact family unit also provide more-favorable evaluations. These patterns in the data cannot be explained by any obvious source. We consider several possible explanations, and discuss research implications.

Keywords: Maternal Assessment; Maternal Assessment Bias; Maternal Assessment Validity; Endogenous Assessment; Family Structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pgs.
Date: 2011-12-02, Revised 2012-10-29
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17sacKEAoI03RqCtkI ... Psq/view?usp=sharing (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:umc:wpaper:1124

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chao Gu ().