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Title: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps?
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Frijters, Paul Johnston, David W. Shah, Manisha Shields, Michael A. |
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps? Demography 50,6 (December 2013): 2187-2208. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-013-0224-2 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Cognitive Development; Handedness; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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 living in the United States. To overcome endogeneity issues, we use sibling differences in handedness as an instrument for cognitive ability differences. We find that parents invest more in high-ability children, with a 1 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. |
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Frijters, Paul, David W. Johnston, Manisha Shah and Michael A. Shields. "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps?" Demography 50,6 (December 2013): 2187-2208.
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