Education Expenditure and Parenting Styles: Evidence from Cognitive Development in China
Education Expenditure and Parenting Styles: Evidence from Cognitive Development in China
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教育支出与教养方式：来自中国认知发展的证据
DOI：
10.1007/s10834-020-09750-4
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Lin Zhang
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作者：
Lin Zhang
教育支出是否会影响父母在人力资本方面的投资，例如养育子女的做法？如果是，这种影响是积极的还是消极的？本研究利用中国家庭面板研究的横截面数据，采用工具变量估计方法，考察了教育支出对父母教养方式的影响。结果如下：（1）教育支出较高地区的父母在控制行为上得分较高，控制行为与父母的要求、参与和监控有关;（2）教育支出较低地区的父母更有可能对孩子表现出严厉，这是一种与敌意，惩罚和胁迫有关的行为，并采取严厉的养育方式，例如体罚和责骂。这些结果共同表明，在教育支出较高的环境中，父母倾向于采取权威的育儿方式，这被认为是最有效的育儿方式。本研究的结果强调了教育支出在提高教育程度方面的重要性，并揭示了人力资本形成从学校到家庭的溢出效应。
Does education spending affect parental investment in human capital, such as parenting practices? If so, is the influence positive or negative? Using pooled cross-sectional data from the China Family Panel Studies, this study investigated whether and how parenting practices were affected by education expenditure across provinces using instrumental variable estimations. The results were as follows: (1) Parents in regions with higher education spending were more likely to obtain a higher score on control behavior, a dimension related to parental demandingness, involvement, and monitoring; (2) Parents in regions with lower education spending were more likely to show harshness, a behavior associated with hostility, punitiveness, and coercion, towards their children and adopt harsh parenting practices, such as physical punishment and scolding. These results jointly indicated that parents in environments with greater education spending tend to adopt an authoritative parenting practice, which is considered the most effective parenting style. The findings of this study highlight the importance of education spending in improving educational attainments and reveal a spillover effect from school to family in human capital formation.