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Title: Child Development Production Functions
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Huang, Fali |
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Child Development Production Functions Presented: San Antonio, TX, Society of Labor Economics 9th Annual Meeting, April 2004. Also: http://client.norc.org/jole/SOLEweb/huang.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: National Opinion Research Center - NORC Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Home Environment; 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); Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Work Histories Early child development is a crucial part of human capital formation. This paper estimates production functions of child cognitive and social development using NLSY(79)child data. A sample of eight- and nine-year old children is constructed where over two hundred current and historical inputs starting from mother's prenatal care period are included. A tree structured regression method is used to conduct estimation under various specifications, explicitly allowing for non-linear structures and unobserved heterogenous child innate ability. The estimation results show that both current and earlier inputs matter, where the most important inputs are books, reading, and discipline. Child abilities evolve over time and are affected by home inputs. A mother's working hours do not matter when detailed inputs and child ability are controlled; nor do a child's race, sex, and birth order. |
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Bibliography Citation
Huang, Fali. "Child Development Production Functions." Presented: San Antonio, TX, Society of Labor Economics 9th Annual Meeting, April 2004. |