Workshop “Parenting Styles, Human Capital Investments and Children’s Outcomes”

Workshop

Parenting Styles, Human Capital Investments and Children’s Outcomes

Organized by the Impact Evaluation Unit 

The 2024 IEU workshop focuses on parenting styles and children outcomes. Recently economists have begun to extend their research scope beyond traditional models of human development to consider an expanded set of inputs, including the style of parenting itself. The concept of “parenting style” has been formalized in developmental psychology as a means of characterizing parents’ approach in raising their children. In some studies presented at the workshop the focus is on early childhood, while in other studies the focus is on adolescence. As Heckman and coauthors and Steinberg have shown, these are important phases in which children are more malleable and parental inputs can affect them more significantly and for longer time. The researches presented here utilize several different empirical strategies, structural and non structural as well as randomization trials.

Program

13.20 Paolo Campolonghi (CCA)
Institutional greetings

13.30 Chiara Monfardini (University of Bologna)
“Parenting courses: An RCT Evaluation”
Discussant: Daniel Auer (CCA)

14.15. Lucia Schiavon (University of Verona)
“Parenting courses and time use” Download presentation
Discussant: Luca Favero (CCA & Essex)

15.00 Christopher Flinn (NYU)
“Parenting with patience” Download presentation
Discussant: Ugo Colombino (Unito)

15.45-16.15 Coffee

16.15 Giuseppe Sorrenti (University of Amsterdam)
“Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk” Download presentation
Discussant: Noemi Oggero (Unito)

17.00 Ylenia Brilli (University of Venezia)
“Parenting and Culture”
Discussant: Ainoa Aparicio (Unito e CCA)

17.45 Flavia Coda Moscarola (University of Piemonte Orientale)
“Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences and Parents’ Sharing Behaviour” Download presentation
Discussant: Matteo Migheli (Unito)

18.30 Conclusions

Organizers
Daniela Del Boca and Chiara Pronzato