2024年秋季第六讲（总第四十六讲）
School Quality, Parental Investments, and Genetic Influences
叶倩瑶 助理教授
报告日期：2024年11月19日（周二）
时间地点：12:10-13:30，经济楼N302
报告语言：中文
内容提要
In this paper, we examine how parental investments, school quality, and genetics influence child development. Specifically, we estimate skill production functions for both cognitive and socio-emotional skills at ages 7 and 11. We implement an instrumental variable approach and leverage information from school application portfolios to address the potential endogeneity of parental investments and school quality. Genetic propensities are measured using polygenic scores for educational attainment. Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, we find distinct effects: parental investments improve skills at age 7 but have no impact by age 11, whereas school quality boosts both cognitive and socio-emotional skills at age 11. Genetic factors are positively associated with both skill types, contributing approximately one-fourth of the effect size of parental investments.
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