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Local Distortions in Parental Beliefs over Child Skill

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  • Josh Kinsler
  • Ronni Pavan

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Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Class of 1999, we show that parental beliefs about a child’s cognitive skill relative to children of the same age are distorted by a child’s cognitive skill relative to children in the same school. Parents of children attending schools with low (high) average skills tend to believe their child is higher (lower) in the overall skill distribution than they actually are. Teacher evaluations of child skill also exhibit local distortions, providing a channel through which parental biases might arise. Finally, we relate parental beliefs and investment, providing insight on how local distortions may impact the skill distribution.

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  • Josh Kinsler & Ronni Pavan, 2021. "Local Distortions in Parental Beliefs over Child Skill," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 129(1), pages 81-100.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jpolec:doi:10.1086/711347
    DOI: 10.1086/711347
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    1. Hugues Champeaux & Lucia Mangiavacchi & Francesca Marchetta & Luca Piccoli, 2022. "Child development and distance learning in the age of COVID-19," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 659-685, September.
    2. Esther Arenas-Arroyo & Bernhard Schmidpeter, 2022. "Spillover Effects of Immigration Policies on Children's Human Capital," Economics working papers 2022-13, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
    3. Deborah A. Cobb-Clark & Tiffany Ho & Nicolás Salamanca, 2021. "Parental Responses to Children’s Achievement Test Results," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2021n17, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
    4. Okonogi, Satoru & Annan, Reginald A. & Sakurai, Takeshi, 2021. "The Effects of Information Provision about Infants’ Nutrition: Experimental Evidence in Ghana," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315255, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    5. Xiaodong Zheng & Yanran Zhou, 2024. "Are migrants a threat? Migrant children and human capital investments among local households in urban China," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-14, December.
    6. Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll & Nadia Campaniello & Ignacio Monzón, 2023. "Parental Love Is Not Blind: Identifying Selection into Early School Start," Working Papers 286, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
    7. Megalokonomou, Rigissa & Zhang, Yi, 2022. "How Good Am I? Effects and Mechanisms behind Salient Ranks," IZA Discussion Papers 15604, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    8. Rigissa Megalokonomou & Yi Zhang, 2023. "How Good Am I? Effects and Mechanisms Behind Salient Rank," Monash Economics Working Papers 2023-07, Monash University, Department of Economics.
    9. Delaney, Judith M. & Devereux, Paul J., 2022. "Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?," IZA Discussion Papers 15128, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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