Do Children's Allowances Motivate Them to Study Harder? Empirical Evidence from Japanese University Students
Do Children's Allowances Motivate Them to Study Harder? Empirical Evidence from Japanese University Students
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DOI：
10.11167/jbef.10.7
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发表时间：
2017
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荒木宏子
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上田薫;Tomoko Kishi & Shigeki Kano;上田薫;荒木宏子
本研究以Becker（1974, 1991）的利他主义父母与利己主义子女相互作用理论为出发点，运用日本大学生特征及其生活方式的微观数据，考察父母对子女入读大学的利他主义金钱转移对其学习总时数和学习优先级的影响。在学习时间方面，只有与父母同住的人文、艺术和社会科学专业的学生对学习时间有显著的正向影响，而离家生活的学生则没有显著的影响。没有证据表明父母的转移会影响学生对学习的重视程度。综上所述，这些发现表明，亲子互动中的信息不对称会降低父母对孩子学习习惯的金钱转移的有效性。（收稿时间：2015年9月7日；收稿时间：2017年7月19日）
This research takes the theory of the interaction between altruistic parents and egoistic children in Becker (1974, 1991) as a starting point, and investigates the effect of parents’ altruistic monetary transfers to their children enrolled in university, on their total hours of study and the priority they put on studying, by employing micro-data on the characteristics of Japanese university students and their lifestyle. Regarding study hours, a positive significant impact can only be observed for students of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences who live with their parents, while a significant effect could not be observed for students who are living away from home. No evidence of an effect of transfers from parents on the priority that students put on study could be observed on any group. Altogether, these findings show that information asymmetries in parent-child interactions can reduce the effectivity of monetary transfers from parents on their children’s study habits.(Received: September 7, 2015; Accepted: July 19, 2017)