Osmanowski, Magdalena; Cardona, Andrés: Resource Dilution or Resource Augmentation? Number of Siblings, Birth Order, Sex of the Child and Frequency of Mother’s Activities with Preschool Chil [...]. In: . Jg.5. 2012
Inhalt
- Impressum Nr. 5, Entwurf
- Siblings Maternal activity frequency_corr_final-Proofreading Titel geändert
- Explaining and understanding the development of non-cognitive skills, competencies, and cultural capital during early stages of the life course and how they impact later success in life is the main goal of project A1. To achieve this goal, one key aim...
- This paper sheds some initial light on these processes by investigating the link between child characteristics and resource distribution within families. Resources such as money, time, or attention, are scarce and subject to deliberate allocation by p...
- To be more specific, in order to expose the mechanisms of closure and hierarchization, it is necessary to unpack parental behavior and expose the logic of parental resource-allocation decisions. Are parents following conscious calculation about which ...
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How big a slice of the pie goes to each child? Resource allocation within the family
- 3. Hypotheses
- 4. Data and methods
- 5. Results
- 5.1. Random effects model (M1): Differences in levels
- 5.2. Fixed effects model (M2): Time changes in frequencies.
- 5.3. Sensitivity analysis
- 6. Discussion
- 7. The resource augmentation hypothesis
- 8. Suggestions for future research
- Appendix
- References
- back matter No 5 neu eps-Logo