Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Family Influences II -- Overview
Resources for discussion of family influences (please try and look these over):
Haveman and Wolfe summarize the literature (as of 1995) on "The Determinants of Children's Attainments." It covers both some of the standard theories and most of the empirical work at the time. It is good. I highly recommend checking it out.
Related to this, a fairly weak paper I wrote for a sociology class I took on the effect of parent education on parenting choices can be found here.
People commonly argue that parents shape their children not only through direct investments in their human capital, but also by shaping their preferences and expectation regarding education, work for pay, etc. Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis have published several articles on this topic. This paper "The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach" provides a nice summary of the potential importance of these factors.
The USDA summarizes dollars spent on children here.
Here are a variety of papers on time use by Americans. Following up on the discussion of sons and daughters from Thursday, this paper specifically looks at time spent by parents with sons and daughters.
Haveman and Wolfe summarize the literature (as of 1995) on "The Determinants of Children's Attainments." It covers both some of the standard theories and most of the empirical work at the time. It is good. I highly recommend checking it out.
Related to this, a fairly weak paper I wrote for a sociology class I took on the effect of parent education on parenting choices can be found here.
People commonly argue that parents shape their children not only through direct investments in their human capital, but also by shaping their preferences and expectation regarding education, work for pay, etc. Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis have published several articles on this topic. This paper "The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach" provides a nice summary of the potential importance of these factors.
The USDA summarizes dollars spent on children here.
Here are a variety of papers on time use by Americans. Following up on the discussion of sons and daughters from Thursday, this paper specifically looks at time spent by parents with sons and daughters.
// posted by BW @ 7:23 PM 
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