Economics
Do Parents Invest Less in Worse-Performing Children? Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article uses data from Indonesia around the time of the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis to examine the role of parental preferences in human capital accumulation. Using a household fixed-effects estimation, I test whether parental education spending is affected by child mathematics test scores. I find that parents are more sensitive to the human capital of younger children, who are penalised for having lower skills than their older siblings. Differences in investment by child gender or birth order are evident in 2000 but not in 1997. This suggests that parents may have an efficiency investment strategy only when resource-constrained, and that education of younger children may be a luxury good.
Publication Title
Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
Publication Date
1-2-2017
Volume
53
Issue
1
First Page
83
Last Page
93
ISSN
0007-4918
DOI
10.1080/00074918.2016.1224320
Keywords
economic crisis, education, human capital, IFLS, Indonesia
Repository Citation
Tsaneva, Magda, "Do Parents Invest Less in Worse-Performing Children? Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis" (2017). Economics. 214.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_economics/214
