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Parental ethnic identity and child test scores
We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and the test scores of ethnic minority children. We use standard survey measures of the strength of parental identity alongside validated cognitive test scores in a rich British cohort study. We show that children whose mothers report either an adoption or an active rejection of the majority identity tend to score lower in cognitive tests at age 7, compared to those children whose mothers report neutral feelings about the majority identity. We find no consistent differences in test scores according to mothersâ minority identity. Our findings provide no support for education or citizenship policies which promote the adoption of the majority identity or discourage the maintenance of separate identities in ethnic minority communities
On the expenditure-dependence of children\u2019s resource shares
Collective household models posit that each household member has access to a fraction of the household
budget, called a resource share, which defines the shadow budget faced by a household member. Together
with the within-household shadow price vector, the shadow budget determines the material well-being
of the household member. In general, it is difficult to identify resource shares from typical household-level
consumption data. However, several recent papers have shown that if resource shares do not depend on
total household expenditure, then identification of resource shares may proceed from commonly available
Engel curve data. Unfortunately, typical datasets do not allow the testing of this restriction. In this paper,
we use a novel Italian dataset to establish that children\u2019s resource shares do not exhibit much dependence
on total household expenditure. Thus, identification of resource shares on the basis of this restriction may
be valid
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