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Author: Martin, David O.
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Hopcroft, Rosemary L. Martin, David O. |
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The Primary Parental Investment in Children in the Contemporary USA is Education Human Nature 25,2 (June 2014): 235-250. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-014-9197-0 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Children; Education; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; General Social Survey (GSS); Parental Investments; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper tests the Trivers-Willard hypothesis that high-status individuals will invest more in sons and low-status individuals will invest more in daughters using data from the 2000 to 2010 General Social Survey and the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We argue that the primary investment U.S. parents make in their children is in their children’s education, and this investment is facilitated by a diverse market of educational choices at every educational level. We examine two measures of this investment: children’s years of education and the highest degree attained. Results show that sons of high-status fathers receive more years of education and higher degrees than daughters, whereas daughters of low-status fathers receive more years of education and higher degrees than sons. Further analyses of possible mechanisms for these findings yield null results. We also find that males are more likely to have high-status fathers than females. |
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Hopcroft, Rosemary L. and David O. Martin. "The Primary Parental Investment in Children in the Contemporary USA is Education." Human Nature 25,2 (June 2014): 235-250.
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