Intra-household resource allocation. Do parents educe or reinforce child cognitive ability gaps?

Autor/inn/en	Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shah, Manisha; Shields, Michael A.
Titel	Intra-household resource allocation. Do parents educe or reinforce child cognitive ability gaps?
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2010), 25 S., 181 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 5153
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Eltern; Kind; Bildungsinvestition; Investition; Arbeitspapier; USA
Abstract	Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings in the NLSY. To overcome endogeneity issues we use sibling differences in handedness as an instrument for cognitive ability differences, since handedness is a strong determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation increase in child cognitive ability increasing parental investments by approximately one-third of a standard deviation. Consequently, differences in child cognitive ability are enhanced by differential parental investments. This finding has important implications for education policy.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/4