How Do Parents Perceive the Returns to Parenting Styles and Neighborhoods?

Lukas Kiessling

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series from University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany

Abstract: This paper studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes of children: (i) parenting styles defined by warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample of 2,119 parents in the United States, I show that parents perceive large returns to the warmth dimension of parenting as well as neighborhood quality, and document that they perceive parenting to compensate for the lack of a good environment. I introduce a measurement error correction to show that perceived returns relate to parents’ actual parenting styles, but document that beliefs are unlikely to explain socioeconomic differences in parenting behavior and families’ neighborhood choices.

Keywords: Subjective expectations; Parenting styles; Neighborhoods; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 I24 I26 J13 J24 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54
Date: 2021-03
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Journal Article: How do parents perceive the returns to parenting styles and neighborhoods? (2021)
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