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Parental Investment in Early Childhood: A Tunisian Regional Comparisons Study

Parental Investment in Early Childhood: A Tunisian Regional Comparisons Study

Hajali Dhouha
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 16
ISSN: 2160-9802|EISSN: 2160-9810|EISBN13: 9781466680340|DOI: 10.4018/IJABE.2015100101
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Dhouha, Hajali. "Parental Investment in Early Childhood: A Tunisian Regional Comparisons Study." IJABE vol.4, no.4 2015: pp.1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJABE.2015100101

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Dhouha, H. (2015). Parental Investment in Early Childhood: A Tunisian Regional Comparisons Study. International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics (IJABE), 4(4), 1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJABE.2015100101

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Dhouha, Hajali. "Parental Investment in Early Childhood: A Tunisian Regional Comparisons Study," International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics (IJABE) 4, no.4: 1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJABE.2015100101

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Abstract

This paper aims to assess and estimate parental investment in children in four activities: education, health, leisure and nurture. The author first analyzes constructed composite scores and observed similarity for parental investment in health and differences in the other activities but the investment level is little enough. The author next provides new empirical evidence to shed light on the relationship between the level of parental investment and characteristics of the child, the mother and the household. Using Poisson and Negative Binominal regression models on household micro-data, the author finds good investment level in health but weak in education and almost unawareness of leisure and recreation. The education is linked to mothers' attitude and the household lifestyle is slightly valuable for the Center-Eastern area and the capital city. On the contrary, nurture activity is not linked to the lifestyle and exhibit regional differences. Moreover, households in the East of the country are more investing then those in the west.

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