TY - JOUR
T1 - Harsh parenting during early childhood and child development
AU - Berthelon, Matias
AU - Contreras, Dante
AU - Kruger, Diana
AU - Palma, María Isidora
N1 - Funding Information:
Diana Kruger and Dante Contreras acknowledge the financial support provided by the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009). Contreras also acknowledges the financial support provided by the Millennium Nucleus of Social Development , which is supported by the Millennium Scientific Initiative of the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism (Chile) . We thank an anonymous referee, as well as Jere Behrman, Juan Eberhard, Marigen Narea, Javier Nuñez, and participants at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez CEPR, Oregon State University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (School of Psychology), and Universidad de Chile (Economics Department) seminars, as well as participants at the Colloquium on Current Topics in Psychology at the School of Psychology of the Universidad Católica de Chile, the 3rd Mental Health Day at the School of Psychology of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 7th Northwest Development Workshop, 2018 Meeting of the Chilean Economic Society, and 3rd IZA Workshop on Gender and Family Economics for helpful comments. All errors are our own.
Funding Information:
Diana Kruger and Dante Contreras acknowledge the financial support provided by the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009). Contreras also acknowledges the financial support provided by the Millennium Nucleus of Social Development, which is supported by the Millennium Scientific Initiative of the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism (Chile). We thank an anonymous referee, as well as Jere Behrman, Juan Eberhard, Marigen Narea, Javier Nuñez, and participants at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez CEPR, Oregon State University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (School of Psychology), and Universidad de Chile (Economics Department) seminars, as well as participants at the Colloquium on Current Topics in Psychology at the School of Psychology of the Universidad Católica de Chile, the 3rd Mental Health Day at the School of Psychology of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 7th Northwest Development Workshop, 2018 Meeting of the Chilean Economic Society, and 3rd IZA Workshop on Gender and Family Economics for helpful comments. All errors are our own.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - We study the relationship between harsh parenting strategies, including psychological and physical aggressions that do not constitute abuse, on early childhood cognitive and socio-emotional development. We estimate a value-added model that controls for a rich set of child, mother, and family characteristics, from a nationally representative sample of Chilean children aged 52–83 months. We find harsh parenting is significantly associated with lower verbal skills (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test) of a magnitude of 0.06 standard deviations, and with increased behavioral problems (Child Behavior Check List), by 0.11 standard deviations, including internalization, externalization, and sleep problems. We also find that the more systematic (persistent) harsh parenting is, the stronger the association; the association is similar for boys and girls; reaches its peak at about 5 years of age; and it is stronger for children with less educated mothers.
AB - We study the relationship between harsh parenting strategies, including psychological and physical aggressions that do not constitute abuse, on early childhood cognitive and socio-emotional development. We estimate a value-added model that controls for a rich set of child, mother, and family characteristics, from a nationally representative sample of Chilean children aged 52–83 months. We find harsh parenting is significantly associated with lower verbal skills (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test) of a magnitude of 0.06 standard deviations, and with increased behavioral problems (Child Behavior Check List), by 0.11 standard deviations, including internalization, externalization, and sleep problems. We also find that the more systematic (persistent) harsh parenting is, the stronger the association; the association is similar for boys and girls; reaches its peak at about 5 years of age; and it is stronger for children with less educated mothers.
KW - Child development
KW - Chile
KW - Cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes
KW - Corporal punishment
KW - Harsh parenting
KW - Spanking
KW - Violence toward children
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075983544&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ehb.2019.100831
DO - 10.1016/j.ehb.2019.100831
M3 - Article
C2 - 31816562
AN - SCOPUS:85075983544
SN - 1570-677X
VL - 36
JO - Economics and Human Biology
JF - Economics and Human Biology
M1 - 100831
ER -