Do Parents Invest Less in Worse-Performing Children? Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8416112 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magda Tsaneva (0000-0003-4416-3357, Clark University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-93 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4918 • E-ISSN: 1472-7234 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00074918.2016.1224320 |
| OpenAlex | W2523934113 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This article uses data from Indonesia around the time of the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis to examine the role of parental preferences in human capital accumulation. Using a household fixed-effects estimation, I test whether parental education spending is affected by child mathematics test scores. I find that parents are more sensitive to the human capital of younger children, who are penalised for having lower skills than their older siblings. Differences in investment by child gender or birth order are evident in 2000 but not in 1997. This suggests that parents may have an efficiency investment strategy only when resource-constrained, and that education of younger children may be a luxury good
Birth order · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Estimation · Financial crisis · Human capital · Investment (military) · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Population · Sociology · Test (biology) · Demography · Finance · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |