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Title: Child Development Production Functions
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Huang, Fali |
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Child Development Production Functions Working Paper, School of Economics and Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, February 28, 2006. Also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=889005 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Academic Development; Children, Behavioral Development; Cognitive Ability; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Modeling; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Television Viewing Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper estimates production functions of child cognitive and social development using NLSY79 child data. A sample of eight- and nine-year old children is constructed, which includes over two hundred home and school inputs starting from mother's prenatal care period as well as family background variables. A tree structured regression method is used to conduct estimation under various specifications, explicitly allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and non-linear structures. A small subset of earlier and current home inputs are found consistently important in explaining variances of child development results, while family backgrounds variables are seldom selected as primary predictors. The effect of maternal employment is negligible when detailed inputs are controlled, and the score gaps across race can be almost completely accounted for by home and school inputs. |
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Bibliography Citation
Huang, Fali. "Child Development Production Functions." Working Paper, School of Economics and Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, February 28, 2006. |