Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures

Arbeitspapier

Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child and parental skill formation that accounts for this contamination and show how standard estimates of the production of skills are affected. We then use our model to illustrate how contamination in parental measures of child non-cognitive skills affects estimates of child development policies that also directly affect parental skills.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13713

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Estimation: General ; Methodological Issues: General ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: children ; human capital ; dynamic factor analysis ; measurement ; policy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Del Bono, Emilia ; Kinsler, Josh ; Pavan, Ronni
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/227240
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET