Strategic parenting, birth order and school performance.

Autor/inn/en	Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Pantano, Juan
Titel	Strategic parenting, birth order and school performance.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2013), 23 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 7680
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Pädagogik; Bildungsniveau; Eltern; Kind; Schüler; Schulleistung; Schulnote; Kindererziehung; Bildungsinvestition; Investition; Arbeitspapier; Geburtenfolge; USA
Abstract	Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in the NLSY-C declines with birth order as does the stringency of their parents' disciplinary restrictions. And, when asked how they will respond if a child brought home bad grades, parents state that they would be less likely to punish their later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting.
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Update	2014/2