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Hao, Lingxin Hotz, V. Joseph Jin, Ginger Zhe |
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Games Daughters and Parents Play: Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers CCPR-05-00, On-Line Working Paper Series, California Center for Population Research, University of California - Los Angeles, November 2000. Also: http://www.ccpr.ucla.edu/ccprwpseries/ccpr_005_00.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: California Center for Population Research (CCPR) Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing, Adolescent; Family Models; Family Studies; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Siblings; Sisters; Transfers, Family; Transfers, Parental Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper, we examine the empirical implications of reputation formation using a game-theoretic model of intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in repeated two-stage games in which daughters' decision to have a child as a teenager and the willingness of parents to continue to house and support their daughters given their decisions. Drawing on the work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have, under certain conditions, the incentive to penalize teenage (and typically out-of-wedlock) childbearing of older daughters, in order to get the younger daughters to avoid teenage childbearing. The two key empirical implications of this model is that the likelihood of teenage childbearing and parental transfers to a daughter who had a teen birth will decrease with the number of the daughter's sisters at risk. We test these two implications, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79), exploiting the availability of repeated observations on young women (daughters) and of observations on multiple daughters (sisters) available in this data. Controlling for daughter- and family-specific fixed effects, we find evidence of differential parental financial transfer responses to teenage childbearing by the number of the daughter's sisters and brothers at risk. |
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Hao, Lingxin, V. Joseph Hotz and Ginger Zhe Jin. "Games Daughters and Parents Play: Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers." CCPR-05-00, On-Line Working Paper Series, California Center for Population Research, University of California - Los Angeles, November 2000. |
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Jackson, Margot I. |
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Understanding Links between Children's Health and Education Working Paper CCPR-014-06, California Center for Population Research, October 2007. Also: http://computing.ccpr.ucla.edu/ccprwpseries/ccpr_014_06.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: California Center for Population Research (CCPR) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Child Health; Children, Illness; Children, Poverty; Educational Attainment; Family Resources; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Racial Differences; School Completion Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper has several goals. First, I add to the growing literature documenting the relationship between health during childhood and adolescence and later educational success. Secondly, I examine variation in this relationship by social status. Are the families of children with a health disadvantage more able to mitigate the negative consequences of that condition if they are socially advantaged? Or do children in these families suffer an equal or greater disadvantage? Third, I evaluate the role of two social mechanisms that may mediate the connection between children's health and their educational attainment. Finally, I consider the extent to which health disparities among children account for racial disparities in children's educational achievement. |
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Jackson, Margot I. "Understanding Links between Children's Health and Education." Working Paper CCPR-014-06, California Center for Population Research, October 2007. |
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Light, Audrey L. McGarry, Kathleen |
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Why Parents Play Favorites: Explanations for Unequal Bequests CCPR-020-03, On-line Working Paper Series, California Center for Population Research, February 2003. Also: http://www.ccpr.ucla.edu/ccprwpseries/ccpr_020_03.pdf Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: California Center for Population Research (CCPR) Keyword(s): Assets; Family Studies; Genetics; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling; Transfers, Family Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Economists have invested a great deal of effort in trying to understand the motivation for family transfers, yet recent empirical work testing the seemingly appealing models of altruism and exchange has led to decidedly mixed results. A major stumbling block has been the lack of adequate data. We take a fresh look at the issue using responses to an innovative survey question that directly asks mothers about the planned division of their estates. We find that both altruism and exchange are frequently offered as explanations of behavior and are of nearly equal importance. Furthermore, the explanations are consistent with observable characteristics of the mother, lending support to the validity of the question. We also find that among step or adopted families, genetic ties play an important role. Because motivating factors appear to differ across families the lack of a consensus among previous researchers about motives ought not to be surprising. A copy of this paper is also available at http://papers.nber.org/papers/W9745. |
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Light, Audrey L. and Kathleen McGarry. "Why Parents Play Favorites: Explanations for Unequal Bequests." CCPR-020-03, On-line Working Paper Series, California Center for Population Research, February 2003. |
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Lundberg, Shelly Romich, Jennifer L. |
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Decision-Making by the Children of the NLSY Working Paper, University of Washington, June 20, 2006. Also: http://www.ccpr.ucla.edu/docs/Lundberg-Child%20decisions.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: School of Social Work, University of Washington Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Family Structure; Maternal Employment; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parenting Skills/Styles; Parents, Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Do not cite without author's permission In this paper we present a very simple model of a parent's choice among three alternate parenting regimes -- parental control, child autonomy, and shared decision-making -- as a framework for an empirical investigation of child reports of who makes decision about their activities. We describe the child decision-making indices constructed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child data (NLSY-C), and present ordered logit models of shared and sole decision-making on seven domains of child activity. We find that the determinants of sole decision-making by the child and shared decision-making with parents are quite distinct, and that sharing decisions appears to be a form of parental investment in child development rather than a simple stage in the transfer of authority. The data we use are from the ongoing National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and the associated Child Supplement and Work History files. The NLSY tracks a nationally representative sample of men and women who were age 14-21 in 1979. ...This analysis uses a pooled sample constructed from the universe of children ages 10-14 in the 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 waves. Some children may contribute more than one observation: an 11-year-old surveyed in 1996 might also be included as a 13-year-old in 1998. Eliminating observations with wave-specific child or parent non-response on the key dependent and labor supply variables gives a sample of 6280 child-years. Also presented: Insitute for Social Sciences, Cornell University, April 4, 2006; Institute for Economy, University of Bergen, June 14, 2006; Institute for Social & Economic Research (ISER) Monday Seminars, University of Essex, Colchester, England, October 9, 2006. |
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Lundberg, Shelly and Jennifer L. Romich. "Decision-Making by the Children of the NLSY." Working Paper, University of Washington, June 20, 2006. |