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giovedì 18 febbraio 2016

Praise: Substitution versus Income Effects, Bryan Caplan

Praise: Substitution versus Income Effects, Bryan Caplan
  • Touchy-feely parents shower praise on their kids.   "Great job!"   "You're super smart!"   "Wonderful."   Old-school parents do the opposite.   "You could have done better."
  • I suspect, is emotional rather than strategic. Parents praise or withhold because that's what feels right to them.
  • accordingly.The pro-praise story: Praise is a form of reward.
  • The anti-praise story: Yes, praise is a form of reward. But the more rewards kids rack up , the more satisfied they feel. The more satisfied they feel, the less effort kids exert.Framed
  • pro- and anti-praise debate boils down to the intermediate micro analysis of the substitution and income effects.
  • Touchy-feel parents also typically avoid shaming their kids.   Old-school parents, in contrast, shame freely.  
  • Here, then, old-school parents seem to rely on the substitution effect - the greater the cost of bad behavior, the smaller the quantity.  
  • Touchy-feely parents, in contrast, seem to tacitly appeal to the income effect: A shamed kid will act even worse because he has so little left to lose.
  • Personally, my parenting style embraces the substitution effect in both directions.....That's definitely more consistent
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lunedì 10 dicembre 2012

Bambini e disciplina

Don't use discipline to turn your kid into a good person when he's an adult.  It won't work.  Use discipline to turn your kid into a good roommate when he's a kid.  It won't work miracles, but it's way better than nothing.

Mild discipline, mechanically enforced, deters bad behavior far more effectively than harsh discipline, arbitrarily enforced.  Idle threats, no matter how lurid, ("I'll sell you to the gypsies if you don't eat your dinner" "I'll turn this car to Disneyland right around") do not improve behavior at all.

Expressing anger at your children is counter-productive.  It undermines your authority and gives wayward children hope of besting you.

altri consigli su come crescere un bambino li trovi qui:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/12/10_things_i_lea.html

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/12/10_more_things.html