Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
By Fabrizio Zilibotti, Matthias Doepke. Social Science Research Network, 2017
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We develop a theory of parent-child relations that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian altruism and paternalism towards children. They can affect their children’s choices via two channels: either by influencing children’s preferences or by imposing direct restrictions on their choice sets. Different parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive) emerge as equilibrium outcomes and are affected both by parental preferences and by the socioeconomic environment. Parenting style, in turn, feeds back into the children’s welfare and economic success. The theory is consistent with the decline of authoritarian parenting observed in industrialized countries and with the greater prevalence of more permissive parenting in countries characterized by low inequality.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- Kinship Systems, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Culture (2018, neutral): “…et al., Forthcoming), in particular papers that highlight the endogeneity or evolution of cultural traits (Bisin and Verdier, 2001; Fernández, 2007; Doepke and Zilibotti, 2014; Alesina and Giuliano, 2015; Becker et al., 2016; Galor and Özak, 2016; Galor et al., 2016; Litina, 2016; Buggle and…”
- Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences (2017, neutral): “, in Dohmen et al. (2010) and Humphries and Kosse (2017). Burks et al. (2009) also indicate a positive correlation between patience and risk-taking.”
- Culture: persistence and evolution (2014, neutral): “…also Guiso et al. (2008) for a model of transmission of beliefs, Fernandez (2013) for a model of beliefs formation, Doepke and Zilibotti (2008) and Doepke and Zilibotti (2017) for a model, respectively, of endogenous preference formation and one that mixes paternalism and altruism in preference…”
- The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? (2018, neutral): “34A small number of recent papers suggest that the rise in involved parenting (and increase in time spent on children), particularly among educated parents, could be due to factors such as the increase in competition for slots in top colleges (Ramey and Ramey, 2010) and increases in inequality (Doep”
- Parenting style as an investment in human development (2018, background): “Doepke and Zilibotti (2017), for example, develop a model of parenting in which parenting style is the equilibrium outcome of parents’ investments in instilling marketable skills in their children, while Cunha (2015) models parenting style as the combination of parental investments and…”