Parental Investments and Educational Outcomes: Trivers–Willard in the U.S.

Parental Investments and Educational Outcomes: Trivers–Willard in the U.S.

In the U.S., there is evidence of a Trivers–Willard (T–W) effect in educational attainment, such that the sons of high status fathers attain more education than the daughters, and the daughters of low status fathers attain more education than the sons. This paper seeks to uncover the mechanisms by which this T–W effect occurs. Data are from the High School and Beyond Study by the U.S. National ...

Health at Birth, Parental Investments and Academic Outcomes

In this presentation I explore the relationship between health at birth and academic outcomes using administrative panel data from Chile. Twins fixed effects models estimate a persistent effect of birth weight on academic achievement while OLS and siblings fixed effects models find this relationship to decline over time. We make sense of these findings in the context of a model of human capital...

Substitution effects in parental investments

Substitution Effects in Parental Investments The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more in observable marital and post-marital transfers as parti...

Parental Investments in Children: How Educational Homogamy and Bargaining Affect Time Allocation *

Distinguishing between developmental and non-developmental care, we examine how educational attainment, marital homogamy and spouses' relative bargaining power influence parents' time investment in their children. We exploit a unique couple-based time diary study for Denmark (n=489) that should yield more reliable estimation than in standard time use studies. We find that developmental care tim...

Parental socioeconomic influences on filial educational outcomes in Scotland