Does Money Matter? A Comparison of the Effect of Income on Child Development in the United States and Great Britain

Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury

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“…The positive association between poverty and socioeconomic status (SES)-as measured by income, wealth, or parental education-on child health and development has been well documented in Western countries (Blau 1999;Bradley and Corwyn 2002;Aughinbaugh and Gittleman 2003), the gradient in health widening as children get older (Case, Lubotsky, and Paxson 2002). …”

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The Socioeconomic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6–42 Months in Bogota

Codina¹,

Attanasio²,

Meghir³

et al. 2015

J. Human Resources

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The Socioeconomic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6–42 Months in Bogota

Codina¹,

Attanasio²,

Meghir³

et al. 2015

J. Human Resources

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“…This inter-generational link in success is too strong to be explained solely by differences in financial resources (Carneiro and Heckman, 2002). Thus, identifying the effects of parental socio-economic background on formation of skills and preferences during childhood has become a central issue for understanding the sources of persistent inequality across social groups and has important implications for timing of policy interventions targeting children from disadvantaged environment (Bowles et al, 2008;Heckman, 3 Parental background has been found to be related to child cognitive and non-cognitive abilities (Aughinbaugh and Gittleman ,2003;Bartling et al, 2012;Cunha et al, 2006), child health (Case et al, 2002;Currie, 2009), school quality, and associated effects of peers or teachers (Case and Katz, 1991). In addition, recent research has shown that altruistic behaviour has a genetic component (Cesarini et al, 2008) indicating a possibility that parents pass genetic predispositions to acquire social norms on their children.…”

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Parental background and other-regarding preferences in children

2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract: Other-regarding preferences are important for establishing and maintaining cooperative outcomes. In this paper, we study how formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is affected by parental background. Our subjects, aged 4-12 years, are classified into other-regarding types based on simple binary choice dictator games. The main finding is that children of parents with low education are more spiteful, more selfish and less altruistic. This link is robust to controlling for a rich set of child characteristics and class fixed effects. The parental effects stand out against the overall development of preferences, as we find children to become less spiteful and more altruistic with increasing age. Our findings, complemented by an analysis of the World Values Survey data, suggest that low socio-economic status affects parental effort invested in instilling other-regarding preferences into children, making them less likely to acquire cooperative types of preferences. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…For industrialized countries the causal impact of parental income on children's educational attainment is being intensively studied using either panel data (see e.g., Blau, 1999;Aughinbaugh and Gittleman, 2003) or instrumental variables (see e.g., Shea, 2000;Maurin, 2002;Chevalier, Harmon, O'Sullivan and Walker, 2005), the latter more and more often based on natural experiments (see e.g., Black, Devereux and Salvanes, 2005;Løken, 2007). The different identifying assumptions made in these studies can of course be subject to debate and it is difficult to draw a sharp conclusion.…”

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Food Price Inflation and Children's Schooling

Grimm

2008

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the shock-induced loss in purchasing power had an immediate effect on enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much larger than a simple OLS regression would suggest. Hence, policies to expand education in Sub-Saharan Africa, should not neglect the demand side. Terms of use: Documents inJEL Classification: I21, O12, Q12.

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Does Money Matter? A Comparison of the Effect of Income on Child Development in the United States and Great Britain

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The Socioeconomic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6–42 Months in Bogota

The Socioeconomic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6–42 Months in Bogota

Parental background and other-regarding preferences in children

Food Price Inflation and Children's Schooling

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