Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2006
Abstract
This paper estimates production functions of child cognitive and social development using a panel data of nine-year old children each with over two hundred home and school inputs as well as family background variables. A tree regression method is used to conduct estimation under various speci…cations. A small subset of inputs is found consistently important in explaining variances of child development results, including the number of books a child has at various ages and how often a mother reads to child by age …ve, while the e¤ects of race and maternal employment are negligible when detailed inputs are controlled.
Keywords
child development, tree regression method, panel data
Discipline
Behavioral Economics | Education
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
15
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 24-2006
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
HUANG, Fali.
What Matter for Child Development?. (2006). 1-15.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/907
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
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