| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29394 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29394 |
| It All Starts with Beliefs: Addressing the Roots of Educational Inequities by Shifting Parental Beliefs | |
| John A. List; Julie Pernaudet; Dana Suskind | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-10-25 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Socioeconomic inequalities in child development crystallize at early stages, with associated disparities in parental investment in children. A key to understanding the data patterns is to document the sources underlying the observed inequalities. We first show that there are dramatic differences in parental beliefs across socioeconomic backgrounds (SES), with parents of higher SES being more likely to believe that parental investments impact child development. We then use two field experiments targeted to low-SES families to explore the mutability of such beliefs and their link to parental investments. In both cases, we find that parental beliefs about child development are malleable. The less intensive version of the program based on educational videos changes parental beliefs, but fails to lastingly increase parental investments and child outcomes. By contrast, in the more intensive version of our program combining home visits and feedback, the augmented beliefs are associated with enriched parent-child interactions and improved vocabulary, math, and social-emotional skills for the children. Together, these results suggest that changing parental beliefs can be an important pathway to raising parental investments and reducing socioeconomic gaps in children’s skills, but that simple informational policies may not be sufficient. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29394 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587068 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John A. List,Julie Pernaudet,Dana Suskind. It All Starts with Beliefs: Addressing the Roots of Educational Inequities by Shifting Parental Beliefs. 2021. |
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| w29394.pdf（1516KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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