Strategic parenting, birth order, and school performance

Parenting, Birth Order and School Achievement

Interest on the e¤ects of birth order on human capital accumulation has been reinvigorated after the publication of Black, Devereux & Salvanes (2005) (BDS, from now on) who …nd large and robust e¤ects of birth order on educational attainment with Scandinavian data. However, despite the convincing results, the underlying causal mechanisms generating this …nding remain somewhat unknown. Indeed, B...

Comparing perceived parenting styles and Birth order in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and normal people

The purpose of this study was to compare perceived parenting styles in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and normal people. The population of the study consisted of students from Tehran universities that were selected 430 people by Convenience Sampling. Among them, 70 people with high scores on obsessive-mental-practical scale and 70 people who were matched characteristics of gender, ag...

Parenting Style and Adolescents’ School Performance in Mainland China

Parenting style, as a widely studied topic, has been used by researchers and educators in the US to predict students’ academic achievements. Despite its theoretical and practical significance, no much work has been conducted to test the generalizability of parenting research framed in the Western culture to the Chinese population. Parenting styles in this study were measured by the PAQ (parenti...

Birth order, motor performance, and maternal influence.

Birth Order, Child Labor and School Attendance in Brazil

This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Evidence from the psychology and sociology literature suggests that earlier-born children tend to have higher innate abilities. The economic implications of these findings are that earlier-born children may have more intra -household resources directed to them when they are y...