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Formation of Children's Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills: Is All Parental Time Equally Effective?

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  • Hélène Le Forner

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UR - Université de Rennes)

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Although parental time is recognized as a strong determinant of child development, little is known about heterogeneity in the effects of parental time. Using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children, I model the cognitive and socioemotional skills production functions for children born in 1999–2000, aged 4–11, using an Arellano–Bond difference GMM estimator. I find that time spent on educational activities with parents together has a stronger effect on children's cognitive skills than that with mothers only. For verbal skills, the difference seems to be driven by families in which parents have a bachelor's degree or more. Although the estimates suggest that mothers' monitoring behavior has a more beneficial effect on children's socioemotional skills than fathers', fathers' monitoring behavior has a stronger impact on children's verbal skills than mothers'.

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  • Hélène Le Forner, 2026. "Formation of Children's Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills: Is All Parental Time Equally Effective?," Post-Print hal-05759156, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05759156
    DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12771478
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