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Author: Frijters, Paul
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1. Frijters, Paul
Johnston, David W.
Shah, Manisha
Shields, Michael A.
Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5153, Institute for the Study of Labor, August 2010.
Also: http://ftp.iza.org/dp5153.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Keyword(s): Accidents; Cognitive Development; Digit Span (also see Memory for Digit Span - WISC); Handedness; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Injuries; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Parental Influences; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Variables, Instrumental

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings in the NLSY. To overcome endogeneity issues we use sibling differences in handedness as an instrument for cognitive ability differences, since handedness is a strong determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation increase in child cognitive ability increasing parental investments by approximately one-third of a standard deviation. Consequently, differences in child cognitive ability are enhanced by differential parental investments. This finding has important implications for education policy.
Bibliography Citation
Frijters, Paul, David W. Johnston, Manisha Shah and Michael A. Shields. "Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?." IZA Discussion Paper No. 5153, Institute for the Study of Labor, August 2010.
2. Frijters, Paul
Johnston, David W.
Shah, Manisha
Shields, Michael A.
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps?
Demography 50,6 (December 2013): 2187-2208.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-013-0224-2
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Cognitive Development; Handedness; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Siblings

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Do parents invest more or less in their high-ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings living in the United States. To overcome endogeneity issues, we use sibling differences in handedness as an instrument for cognitive ability differences. We find that parents invest more in high-ability children, with a 1 standard deviation increase in child cognitive ability increasing parental investments by approximately one-third of a standard deviation. Consequently, differences in child cognitive ability are enhanced by differential parental investments.
Bibliography Citation
Frijters, Paul, David W. Johnston, Manisha Shah and Michael A. Shields. "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps?" Demography 50,6 (December 2013): 2187-2208.