The Response of Household Parental Investment to Child Endowments

David Loughran, Ashlesha Datar and M. Kilburn

No WR-404-1, Working Papers from RAND Corporation

Abstract: The theoretical and empirical literature on parental investment focuses on whether child-specific parental investments reinforce or compensate for a child's initial endowments. However, many parental investments, such as neighborhood quality and family size and structure, are shared wholly or in part among all children in a household. The empirical results of this paper imply that such household parental investments compensate for low endowments, as proxied by low birth weight.

Keywords: birth weight; child rearing; parenting; social status-health aspects; education-health aspects; economic indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2008-05
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