Discrimination and Daycare Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Survey

Arbeitspapier

We use a randomized survey to study how discrimination affects parenting choices. In our survey, parents with young children choose between two public daycares, which are described by testimonials from other (fictitious) parents. The testifying parents in the first daycare describe a free play institution, which reflects a pro-typical Scandinavian 'permissive parenting' approach to childcare. The testifying parents in the second daycare describe a more structured daycare, which reflects an alternative approach to child care that is broadly consistent with 'paternalistic parenting'. We randomize the fictitious names of the testifying parents across respondents. We find bias against ethnic minorities among parents who prefer a structured child care institution but not among parents who prefer free play one. These biases are not reduced when we provide additional information on testifiers' professions. Our findings offer validation for a model of parenting where biases regarding discrimination are likely to come from parents preferring less permissive/more authoritarian methods of parenting.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CEBI Working Paper Series ; No. 14/19

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Education and Inequality
• Thema: discrimination ; survey experiment ; parenting style ; daycare choice

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Batsaikhan, Mongoljin ; Gørtz, Mette ; Kennes, John ; Lyng, Ran Sun ; Monte, Daniel ; Tumennasan, Norovsambuu
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)
• (wo): Copenhagen
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/258914
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ