Resumen de Early maternal time investment and early child outcomes

Emilia Del Bono, Marco Francesconi, Yvonne Kelly, Amanda Sacker

• Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this article estimates the relationship between maternal time inputs and early child development. We find that maternal time is a quantitatively important determinant of skill formation and that its effect declines with child age. There is evidence of long-term effects of early maternal time inputs on later outcomes, especially in the case of cognitive skill development. In the case of non-cognitive development, the evidence of this long-term impact disappears when we account for skill persistence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]