Juan Pantano
Washington University in Saint Louis
Campus Box 1208
St. Louis MO 63130-4899
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Institutional Affiliation: University of Chicago
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| October 2013 | Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance
with V. Joseph Hotz: w19542
Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in the NLSY-C declines with birth order as does the stringency of their parents' disciplinary restrictions. And, when asked how they will respond if a child brought home bad grades, parents state that they would be less likely to punish their later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a r... Published: V. Joseph Hotz & Juan Pantano, 2015. "Strategic parenting, birth order, and school performance," Journal of Population Economics, vol 28(4), pages 911-936. citation courtesy of 
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| July 2010 | Comment on "Capital Crimes: Kidnappings and Corporate Investment in Colombia"
in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, editors
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