TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Doepke, Matthias
AU  - Sorrenti, Giuseppe
AU  - Zilibotti, Fabrizio
        TI  - The Economics of Parenting
        PY  - 2019/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12108
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12108
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - altruism
KW  - peer effects
KW  - skill acquisition
KW  - parenting style
KW  - parenting
KW  - paternalism
        ER  -