Compensation or Reinforcement? The Stratification of Parental Responses to Children's Early Ability.
Theory and empirical evidence suggest that parents allocate their investments unequally among their children, thus inducing within-family inequality. We investigate whether parents reinforce or compensate for initial ability differences between their children as well as whether these parental respon...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1883 - 1905 |
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