School of Accounting, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China.
College of Art, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China.
PLoS One. 2023 Jun 29;18(6):e0286987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286987. eCollection 2023.
The large group of left-behind children with the absence of parental accompanying are likely to have serious physical and psychological problems, which may lead to serious public safety and social economic troubles in adulthood. Such unique phenomenon calls us attention on the impact of parents on household educational investment. Based on the data of China Family Panel Studies in 2014, This paper examines the effects of parents' cognitive ability on household educational investment for their children. The research propositions were tested using multiple regression analysis methods. Results indicate that parents' cognitive ability can significantly improve the level of monetary and non-monetary investment in education. We also find that compared with their counterparts, the cognitive ability of left-behind children's parents fails to affect their household educational investment, due to the "parent-child separation effect". Further analysis shows that improving the regional informatization level of parents of left-behind children can alleviate the "parent-child separation effect", and finally facilitate cognitive ability's role in increasing household educational investment. These findings enlighten education policy makers and households a feasible way to alleviate the imbalance and insufficiency of household educational investment among left-behind children families.
大量缺乏父母陪伴的留守儿童很可能存在严重的身心问题，这可能会导致他们成年后产生严重的公共安全和社会经济问题。这种独特的现象引起了我们对父母对家庭教育投资影响的关注。本文基于 2014 年中国家庭追踪调查的数据，考察了父母认知能力对子女家庭教育投资的影响。利用多元回归分析方法检验了研究假设。结果表明，父母的认知能力可以显著提高教育的货币和非货币投资水平。我们还发现，与对照组相比，留守儿童父母的认知能力并不能影响其家庭教育投资，这是因为存在“亲子分离效应”。进一步的分析表明，提高留守儿童父母所在地区的信息化水平，可以缓解“亲子分离效应”，从而促进认知能力在增加家庭教育投资方面的作用。这些发现为教育政策制定者和家庭提供了一种可行的途径，可以缓解留守儿童家庭在家庭教育投资方面的不平衡和不足。
