变化中的家庭：家庭关系、父母决策与儿童发展
Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions, and Child Development
Journal of Labor Economics · 2024 · [{"name": "Marc K. Chan", "affiliation": ["The University of Melbourne"]}, {"name": "Kai Liu", "affiliation": ["University of Cambridge"]}]
中文摘要
我们构建了一个易于处理的经济学框架，用于研究家庭结构对儿童认知和非认知结果的影响。我们将序贯选择模型与面板数据相结合——该面板数据涵盖亲生父母双方(不论其后续关系状态如何)以及社会父亲，并纳入一组排除限制条件，据此识别出亲生家庭中未观测到的异质性，并通过控制函数方法考察儿童技能形成过程。高能力父亲的时间投入具有正回报，而低能力父亲的时间投入则可能产生负回报。旨在激励家庭形成的政策，应当考虑母亲同居对象(父亲)的质量。
Abstract
We develop a tractable economic framework to study the impact of family structure on children’s cognitive and noncognitive outcomes. Combining a sequential choice model with panel data on both biological parents, irrespective of subsequent relationship status, and on social fathers and a set of exclusion restrictions, we identify the unobserved heterogeneity of biological families and examine child skill formation via a control function approach. Time investments made by high-ability fathers have positive returns, whereas those made by low-ability fathers can generate negative returns. Policies that incentivize family formation should consider the quality of the fathers whom mothers are cohabited with.