Parental care and cognitive skill development in early childhood

Xiaoyan Youderian

Applied Economics, 2024, vol. 56, issue 53, 6924-6929

Abstract: This paper looks at the relationship between child care choices and children’s cognitive skills at an early age. The care choices include parental care, center care, relative care and non-relative care. I use children’s motor and mental scores at 9 months as a baseline control for their innate ability and their reading and maths scores in kindergarten as outcome measures of cognitive development. My estimates show that non-parental care is related to better scores for children from less-educated households. Further analysis on some parenting activity and parenting style measures shows that reading to children more frequently and a healthy parenting approach have the potential to reduce the parental and non-parental care gap.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2277683

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