Does mother know best? Parental discrepancies in assessing child functioning

Arbeitspapier

We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are driven by noisy evaluations or by systematic bias, focusing on the role of parental characteristics and response heterogeneity. We then explicitly assess the relative importance of the mother's versus the father's assessments in explaining child academic performance and diagnosed mental health to investigate whether one parent is systematically a better informant of their child's outcomes than the other.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6962

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
• Thema: child development ; informant discrepancies ; reporting bias ; Kinder ; Bildungsniveau ; Psychische Störung ; Eltern ; Mütter ; Informationsvermittlung ; Dänemark

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gupta, Nabanita Datta ; Lausten, Mette ; Pozzoli, Dario
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67177
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ