It’s all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring’s cognitive and noncognitive skill development
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR single centre | |
| cg.contributor.crp | Policies, Institutions, and Markets | |
| cg.contributor.donor | Greg and Cindy Page Faculty Distribution Fund | |
| cg.creator.identifier | xiaobo zhang: 0000-0002-4981-9565 | |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.2499/1024320727 | |
| cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division | |
| cg.identifier.publicationRank | Not ranked | |
| cg.number | 1708 | |
| cg.place | Washington, DC | |
| cg.reviewStatus | Internal Review | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tan, Chih Ming | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wang, Xiao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Xiaobo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-21T09:13:15Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2024-06-21T09:13:15Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147318 | |
| dc.title | It’s all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring’s cognitive and noncognitive skill development | en |
| dcterms.abstract | The importance of (early) parental investments in children’s cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a question of deep policy significance. However, because parental investments are arguably endogenous, it is a great challenge to empirically estimate their importance. 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, in order to address this empirical challenge. By looking at the outcomes of children born just before and just after the cutoff for a “lucky” versus “nonlucky” zodiac sign, we find that parents’ investments have significant effects on their offspring’s development of both cognitive and noncognitive skills. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Tan, Chih Ming; Wang, Xiao; and Zhang, Xiaobo. 2018. It’s all in the stars: The Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring’s cognitive and noncognitive skill development. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1708. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147318 | en |
| dcterms.extent | 39 pages | |
| dcterms.isPartOf | IFPRI Discussion Paper | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2018-02-09 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| dcterms.relation | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2017.04.001 | en |
| dcterms.relation | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147671 | en |
| dcterms.replaces | https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/132276 | |
| dcterms.subject | human capital | en |
| dcterms.subject | education | en |
| dcterms.subject | child development | en |
| dcterms.subject | economic development | en |
| dcterms.subject | parental behaviour | en |
| dcterms.subject | mental ability | en |
| dcterms.type | Working Paper |
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