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Title: What's Love Got to Do with It? The Emotional Climate of the Home, Cultural Capital, and Children's Educational Performance
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Breinholt, Asta |
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What's Love Got to Do with It? The Emotional Climate of the Home, Cultural Capital, and Children's Educational Performance Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Children, Academic Development; Home Environment; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Investments; Parenting Skills/Styles; Punishment, Corporal; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the study of the intergenerational transmission of inequality, cultural capital accounts have neglected the emotional climate of the home. This paper investigates whether the emotional climate of the home moderates the effect of cultural capital on children's educational performance. I use data on children aged 6-7 from the NLSY79-CYA from 1986-2006. To address unobserved characteristics affecting both parenting and children's educational performance, I compare the parenting of grown-up sisters and apply fixed effect models. In line with previous studies, I find a negative effect of physical punishment and a positive effect of parents' active cultural investments on children's educational performance. Surprisingly, parents' emotional responsiveness does not affect children's educational performance. Neither emotional responsiveness nor physical punishment moderates the effect of parents' active cultural investments on educational performance. This may be due to unobserved characteristics affecting both educational performance and the co-presence of physical punishment and parents' active cultural investments. |
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Breinholt, Asta. "What's Love Got to Do with It? The Emotional Climate of the Home, Cultural Capital, and Children's Educational Performance." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |