This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child … health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income … and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …

behaviours displayed by children in their first year of schooling. As children living in low socioeconomic status (SES) families …; Robinson, Mandelco, Olsen, & Hart, 2001). Teachers (n = 21) rated children on how frequently they engaged in fifteen behaviours … explained a small proportion of the variance in child externalising behaviours, highlighting the need to educate parents in …

explained by improvements in early parental investment. This study demonstrates that boosting children's early cognitive skills …

on differential reports of child behaviour, discrepancies between parent and teacher reports of children’s school …