Year: 2013
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
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.
DOI: 10.3386/w19542
Authors: V. Joseph Hotz, Juan Pantano
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2890149045