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Title: Estimations of Child Development Production Functions
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Huang, Fali |
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Estimations of Child Development Production Functions Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Nov 2002. Also: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~fali/earlychild929.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Home Environment; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the paper production functions of child cognitive and social development are estimated in a general behavioral model of parents. A sample of eight- and nine-year old children from NLSY(79) child data is used, which includes over two hundred home and school inputs starting from mother's prenatal care period. A tree-structured regression is used instead of the conventional linear regression. The estimation is conducted under various specifications used in the literature, including value-added and within-child difference methods. The estimation results show that historical inputs are important in that they not only have direct effects on future child development results, but also may affect children abilities. And in most cases earlier scores are not sufficient statistics for historical inputs. Specifically, the number of books a child has at various ages, how often a child reads for self-enjoyment, and how often a mother reads to her young child are the most important inputs in predicting a child's math and reading scores. Child behavioral problems at age eight and nine are mostly associated with parents' discipline frequencies, while at younger ages they are also affected by books and readings. Children's innate abilities seem to have large effects on child development. The effects of race and maternal employment are also discussed. |
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Bibliography Citation
Huang, Fali. "Estimations of Child Development Production Functions." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Nov 2002. |