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Title: Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviour, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers
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Hao, Lingxin Hotz, V. Joseph Jin, Ginger Zhe |
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Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviour, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers Economic Journal 118,528 (April 2008): 515-555. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02132.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing, Adolescent; Family Resources; Risk-Taking; School Dropouts; Siblings; Transfers, Family; Transfers, Parental Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article examines parental reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. In a repeated two stage game, children decide whether to drop out of high school or daughters decide whether to have births as teens and parents then decide whether to provide support to their children beyond age 18. Drawing on Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982), we show that, under certain conditions, parents have the incentive to penalise older children for their adolescent risk-taking behaviour in order to dissuade their younger children from such behaviour when reaching adolescence. We find evidence in favour of this parental reputation model. |
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Hao, Lingxin, V. Joseph Hotz and Ginger Zhe Jin. "Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviour, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers." Economic Journal 118,528 (April 2008): 515-555.
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