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The Impact of Parenting Style on Children’s Educational Outcomes in the United States

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  • Md. Majumder

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This paper examines the causal link between parenting style and children’s educational outcomes. The existing literature seems to lack any effort to use a nationally representative data from the United States, to properly address endogeneity, or to examine educational outcomes beyond high school level. This paper attempts to mitigate these shortcomings. Drawing upon the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, it first used OLS and logit regression. It then applied the maximum simulated likelihood approach to get rid of endogeneity, thereby isolating the causal impact of parenting style on children’s educational outcomes. Findings suggested that parenting style mattered for children academic performance. Authoritative parenting style was found to be the best among all types of parenting style. Particularly, relative to uninvolved parents’ children, authoritatively reared children were predicted to have 1.1 more years of schooling and be 18.5, 13.6, and 16.3 percentage points more likely to obtain at least bachelor’s degree, associate’s degree, and high school diploma, respectively. Also, they had 5.5 percentage points less likelihood of being high school dropouts than children reared by uninvolved parents. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016

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  • Md. Majumder, 2016. "The Impact of Parenting Style on Children’s Educational Outcomes in the United States," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 89-98, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jfamec:v:37:y:2016:i:1:p:89-98
    DOI: 10.1007/s10834-015-9444-5
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    1. Tae‐Young Pak & Lu Fan, 2022. "Childhood experience of parental affection and financial well‐being in later life: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 56(4), pages 1433-1453, December.
    2. Nancy Reichman & Hope Corman & Dhaval M. Dave & Ariel Kalil & Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, 2020. "Effects of Welfare Reform on Parenting," NBER Working Papers 28077, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Yang, Juan & Zhao, Xinhui, 2020. "Parenting styles and children’s academic performance: Evidence from middle schools in China," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 113(C).
    4. Nancy Reichman & Hope Corman & Dhaval M. Dave & Ariel Kalil & Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, 2020. "Effects of Welfare Reform on Parenting," Working Papers 2020-163, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.
    5. Xiaohui Sophie Li, 2021. "What Impacts Young Generations’ School/College Education Through the Lens of Family Economics? A Review on JFEI Publications in the Past Ten Years," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 42(1), pages 118-123, July.
    6. Jonathan G. Kimmes & Stuart J. Heckman, 2017. "Parenting Styles and College Enrollment: A Path Analysis of Risky Human Capital Decisions," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 38(4), pages 614-627, December.
    7. Kristin Mammen, 2020. "Children’s Gender and Investments from Nonresident Fathers," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 41(2), pages 332-349, June.

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