The article explicitly considers the role of parenting style in child rearing relating it to socioeconomic disadvantage. It finds that effective parenting styles are negatively correlated with disadvantage.

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Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca & Anna Zhu:
‘Parenting style as an investment in human development’.
Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 32 (2019), Issue 4 (October), pp. 1315-1352.

Journal Website, complete issue 4. Paper.

Author Abstract: We propose a household production function approach to human development that explicitly considers the role of parenting style in child rearing. Specifically, parenting style is modeled as an investment that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also on attention. Our model relates socioeconomic disadvantage to parenting style and human development through the constraints that disadvantage places on cognitive capacity. We find empirical support for key features of our model. Parenting style is a construct that is distinctive to standard parental investments and is important for young-adult outcomes. Effective parenting styles are negatively correlated with disadvantage.

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Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 32 (2019), Issue 4 (October), pp. 1101-1123
Journal Website, complete issue 4. Paper PDF – OPEN ACCESS.
GLO Fellows Gautam Hazarika, Chandan Kumar Jha & Sudipta Sarangi

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