Children’s self-control and family savings for education: An empirical examination from China

Kuiyun Zhi, Yongjin Chen and Jin Huang

Children and Youth Services Review, 2020, vol. 119, issue C

Abstract: Individual life success depends critically on one’s development and mastery of self-control during childhood, and thus, it is important to understand the sources and development of children’s self-control. We create a sample of children aged 10–15 (N = 2,182) using data from a nationally representative survey in China and examine the relationship between children’s self-control and family savings for children’s future education. Analyses include children’s, mothers’, and families’ characteristics as control variables. The results suggest that family savings for children are positively and significantly associated with children’s self-control scores. The effect size of family savings on children’s self-control is modest yet meaningful. The study highlights the significance in terms of policy and practice of asset building for children; asset building for children could be a potential policy tool to promote child development.

Keywords: Asset building; Child development; China; Self-control; Savings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105575

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