Parental proxy decisions

Parents are responsible for the upbringing of their children according to the Basic Law. In this role, parents act every day in many situations as representatives of their underage offspring. They decide, among other things, about attending a childcare facility, choosing a school, drug treatments and feeding the child. Ultimately, however, it is the child who bears the short- and long-term consequences of their parents' decision-making processes. This book therefore focuses on the parental decision-making process with its various components and their importance for child development. In particular, parental time and risk preferences are examined in the context of incentive-compatible experiments and evaluated in connection with survey data. The results have implications for the design of educational and family policy measures.

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• Title: Parental Proxy Decisions
• Author: Dr. Franziska Ziegelmeyer
• Edition: 1st edition
• Published: 1st edition 2012-10-25
• Subject: Social Science
• Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
• Product type: Dissertation
• Language: German
• Binding: Softcover (paperback)
• Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
• Scope: 187 pages
• Condition: New (shrink-wrapped in foil)
• Keywords: Influencing parental decision-making processes, survey, educational policy, educational policy measures, federal project "Elternchance ist Kinderchance", equal opportunities, parental decisions, parental preferences, parental representative decision, parents, parents as representatives, decision, decision-making process, development decisions, experiment, family, Family policy, family policy interventions, family policy measures, family economy, social need for action, human capital formation, kindergarten, cognitive abilities, risk preference, state intervention options, subjective risk measure, behavioral model, time and risk preferences

Author

Franziska Ziegelmeyer, born in Hanover in 1981, studied business administration from 2002 to 2007 at the Universities of Göttingen and Galway, Ireland. As a Cusanuswerk scholarship holder, she became interested in the influence of family, especially parents, on children’s educational careers during an academy. In her diploma thesis, Franziska Ziegelmeyer examined the extent to which family policy can contribute to equal opportunities for children. After an internship at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in 2007, Ms. Ziegelmeyer worked from 2007 to 2011 as a research assistant at the Professorship for Economic Policy and SME Research at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. This is also where the doctoral dissertation on parental proxy decisions was written, with which the author continued to expand the field of research she had begun.

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