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- Title
Parental limit-setting decisions and adolescent subject grades.
- Authors
Tracey, Marlon R.; Holmes, Chanita C.; Powell, Marvin G.
- Abstract
Too much decision-making freedom in adolescence might discourage academic effort at the level parents desire since children tend to be less patient and risk-averse. Therefore, many parents limit their child's choices in order to achieve optimal effort. In this paper, we analyze how limits on autonomy affect a child's academic effort, gauged by both official transcript and child-reported grades in four core subjects. One empirical challenge is that parents might allow more independent decisions when a child exerts more academic effort, creating a downward bias. Our approach is to employ recursive bivariate models in which community differences in conservative Protestant market share produce external variations in the number of limits. We find US parents limit independent decision-making primarily to reinforce grades in high school English and math, with gains that diminish with the number of limits.
- Subjects
TEENAGERS; MARKET share; PRODUCE markets; ELEMENTARY schools; PARENTS; ACADEMIC freedom
- Publication
Review of Economics of the Household, 2024, Vol 22, Issue 1, p143
- ISSN
1569-5239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11150-023-09655-9