It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development
Parental investments in children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes are deeply important to policymakers. However, because parental investments are arguably endogenous, estimating their importance empirically poses a challenge. To address this challenge, this paper exploits a rich and novel datas...
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| author | Tan, Chih Ming Wang, Xiao Zhang, Xiaobo |
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| description | Parental investments in children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes are deeply important to policymakers. However, because parental investments are arguably endogenous, estimating their importance empirically poses a challenge. To address this challenge, this paper exploits a rich and novel dataset, the China Family Panel Studies, and proposes a culture‐specific instrumental variable based on the Chinese zodiac. By comparing the outcomes of children born just before and just after the cutoff for a “lucky” (or ‘unlucky’) zodiac sign, we find that parents' investments have significant effects on offspring's development of both cognitive and noncognitive skills. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1396052025-10-26T12:53:06Z It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development Tan, Chih Ming Wang, Xiao Zhang, Xiaobo policy innovation parents child growth children Parental investments in children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes are deeply important to policymakers. However, because parental investments are arguably endogenous, estimating their importance empirically poses a challenge. To address this challenge, this paper exploits a rich and novel dataset, the China Family Panel Studies, and proposes a culture‐specific instrumental variable based on the Chinese zodiac. By comparing the outcomes of children born just before and just after the cutoff for a “lucky” (or ‘unlucky’) zodiac sign, we find that parents' investments have significant effects on offspring's development of both cognitive and noncognitive skills. 2024-07 2024-02-22T21:30:39Z 2024-02-22T21:30:39Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139605 en Limited Access Wiley Tan, Chih Ming; Wang, Xiao; and Zhang, Xiaobo. 2024. It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development. Economics of Transition and Institutional Change 32(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12405 |
| spellingShingle | policy innovation parents child growth children Tan, Chih Ming Wang, Xiao Zhang, Xiaobo It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development |
| title | It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development |
| title_full | It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development |
| title_fullStr | It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development |
| title_full_unstemmed | It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development |
| title_short | It's all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development |
| title_sort | it s all in the stars the chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring s cognitive and noncognitive skill development |
| topic | policy innovation parents child growth children |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139605 |
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