Showing 1 - 10 of 10,935
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293678
that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316071
that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172268
Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments … educational attainment if children are later re-exposed. Our findings highlight the importance of capturing the critical tradeoffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130925
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation … reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256101
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480821
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989824
We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children’s choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241960
We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children’s choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250733
We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250780