Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193402 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12108
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices people make throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the toolset of their discipline to understand what parents do and how parents' actions affect their children. In recent years, the literature on parenting within economics has increasingly leveraged findings and concepts from related disciplines that also deal with parent-child interactions. For example, economists have developed models to understand the choice between various parenting styles that were first explored in the developmental psychology literature, and have estimated detailed empirical models of children's accumulation of cognitive and noncognitive skills in response to parental and other inputs. In this paper, we survey the economic literature on parenting and point out promising directions for future research.
Subjects: 
parenting
parenting style
skill acquisition
peer effects
altruism
paternalism
JEL: 
J13
J24
R20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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