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Author: Breinholt, Asta
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Breinholt, Asta |
Does Education Homogenize Parenting Practices? Presented: Philadelphia PA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2018 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Parenting Skills/Styles; Sisters Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines whether education homogenizes mothers' engagement in cognitively stimulating parenting. The alternative is that highly educated mothers were already a homogeneous group before earning their degree. Using data from the NLSY-CYA, I jointly analyze differences between educational groups in the mean and variance of cognitively stimulating parenting using a variance function regression. To address selection, I exploit NLSY-CYA data on the parenting of adult sisters to apply a fixed effect design, controlling for unobserved characteristics of the mother's origin family. I contribute three main findings. First, descriptively, I find much higher variance in cognitively stimulating parenting among low educated mothers compared to higher educated mothers. Second, I find that observed characteristics of the origin family partially and unobserved characteristics of the origin family fully explain the differences in variance in cognitively stimulating parenting between low and highly educated mothers, which suggests that highly educated mothers were a more homogeneous group before earning their degree. Third, I find that mean differences in cognitively stimulating parenting between low and highly educated mothers persist after controlling for unobserved characteristics of the mother's origin family supporting the hypothesis that education increases engagement in cognitively stimulating parenting. |
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Breinholt, Asta. "Does Education Homogenize Parenting Practices?" Presented: Philadelphia PA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2018. |
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Breinholt, Asta |
What's Love Got to Do with It? The Emotional Climate of the Home, Cultural Capital, and Children's Educational Performance Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Children, Academic Development; Home Environment; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Investments; Parenting Skills/Styles; Punishment, Corporal; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the study of the intergenerational transmission of inequality, cultural capital accounts have neglected the emotional climate of the home. This paper investigates whether the emotional climate of the home moderates the effect of cultural capital on children's educational performance. I use data on children aged 6-7 from the NLSY79-CYA from 1986-2006. To address unobserved characteristics affecting both parenting and children's educational performance, I compare the parenting of grown-up sisters and apply fixed effect models. In line with previous studies, I find a negative effect of physical punishment and a positive effect of parents' active cultural investments on children's educational performance. Surprisingly, parents' emotional responsiveness does not affect children's educational performance. Neither emotional responsiveness nor physical punishment moderates the effect of parents' active cultural investments on educational performance. This may be due to unobserved characteristics affecting both educational performance and the co-presence of physical punishment and parents' active cultural investments. |
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Bibliography Citation
Breinholt, Asta. "What's Love Got to Do with It? The Emotional Climate of the Home, Cultural Capital, and Children's Educational Performance." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |