Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage

Inés Berniell and Ricardo Estrada

Labour Economics, 2020, vol. 66, issue C

Abstract: This paper studies how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage: age at school entry. To do so, we analyze Spanish data on parental investments and find that college-educated parents increase their time investments and choose better schools for children who are younger than their classmates at school entry, while non-college-educated parents do not do any of both. Consistent with this compensating behavior, we document a lower age-at-school-entry penalty among children with college-educated parents.

Keywords: Parental investments; Age at school entry; Education inequality; Compensating behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Working Paper: Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage (2017)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101879

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