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Title: Essays on Children's Skill Formation
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Agostinelli, Francesco |
Essays on Children's Skill Formation Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, 2018 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Home Environment; Family Income; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Skill Formation; Work Hours/Schedule Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The dissertation is composed by three chapters. In Chapter 2 (coauthored with Matthew Wiswall) I develop new results for the identification and estimation of the technology of children's skill formation when children's skills are unobserved. In Chapter 4 (coauthored with Giuseppe Sorrenti) I study the effect of family income and maternal hours worked on both cognitive and behavioral child development. |
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Agostinelli, Francesco. Essays on Children's Skill Formation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, 2018. |