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The production function of cognitive skills : nutrition, parental inputs and caste test gaps in India

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dc.creator López Boo, Florencia
dc.date 2017-10-24T19:45:09Z
dc.date 2017-10-24T19:45:09Z
dc.date 2009
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-17T18:10:36Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-17T18:10:36Z
dc.identifier 9781904427612
dc.identifier http://repositorio.iep.org.pe/handle/IEP/705
dc.identifier.uri http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/51628
dc.description "This paper explores the determinants of children's cognitive outcomes using novel panel data from two cohorts of children in India. As in Todd and Wolpin’s study (2007), I do not find evidence supporting restrictive models that assume test scores depend only on contemporaneous inputs. Rather, the results show that lagged inputs affect the production of current skills. In models where past inputs are not observed or imperfectly measured, past nutritional status and/or past test scores turn out to be a good proxy-indicator of this variable, which is evidence for the 'sufficiency' assumption. I allow for the endogeneity of nutrition using an instrumental variable approach and find that a 1 standard deviation increase in height-for-age scores at the age of 1 leads to cognitive test scores that are about a quarter of a standard deviation higher at age 5. Results for the Older Cohort have a similar magnitude. I also study the behaviour of inputs and find that parents seem to 'reinforce' children for early favourable outcomes rather than 'compensate' them for adverse scores; and they do so more in lower caste families and particularly with boys."–Abstract.
dc.description Young Lives, an International Study of Childhood Poverty.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Young Lives
dc.relation Otros Títulos;
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
dc.source Repositorio institucional-IEP
dc.subject Resultados cognitivos
dc.subject Salud
dc.subject Nutrición
dc.subject Niños
dc.subject Bienestar de la infancia
dc.subject India
dc.title The production function of cognitive skills : nutrition, parental inputs and caste test gaps in India
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/book


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