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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Academic Test Scores: Evidence from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Using a sequence of questions from the 1996 US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we explore the implications of interpersonal differences in parent's attitudes towards risk for the academic test scores of their children focusing on information drawn from the 1997 Child Development Supplement of...

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Published in:Scottish Journal of Political Economy Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 47 - 71
Main Authors: Brown, Sarah, Ortiz-Nuñez, Aurora, Taylor, Karl
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2012
Subjects:
Educational attainment
Risk assessment
Parent-child relationships
Developmental programs
College students
Education & economics
Economic models
Educational evaluation
United States
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