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Title: Early Parental Time Investments in Children's Capital Development: Effects of Time in the First Year on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes
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1. Neidell, Matthew J.
Early Parental Time Investments in Children's Capital Development: Effects of Time in the First Year on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes
Working Paper No. 806, Department of Economics, University of California - Los Angeles, 2000.
Also: http://www.econ.ucla.edu/workingpapers/wp806.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birth Order; Birthweight; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Well-Being; Cognitive Development; Fathers, Involvement; Human Capital; Infants; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC); Siblings

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Based on recent neuropsychological literature, this study measures the effects of early parental time investments on children's cognitive and non-cognitive development. This study offers three innovations. First, time investments are not permitted to be substitutable over time. Second, short and long term cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes are considered. Third, a household fixed effect is constructed to capture the unobserved heterogeneity of caregivers and children. This offers a lower bound of the true effect of time investments. Using the National Longitudinal Survey Child-Mother file, the results are consistent with neuropsychological evidence. They suggest that uninterrupted parental time investments for up to one year offer lasting benefits, particularly for non-cognitive outcomes, but longer spells of uninterrupted investments are of questionable value.
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Neidell, Matthew J. "Early Parental Time Investments in Children's Capital Development: Effects of Time in the First Year on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes." Working Paper No. 806, Department of Economics, University of California - Los Angeles, 2000.