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Parental care and cognitive skill development in early childhood

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  • Xiaoyan Youderian

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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.

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  • Xiaoyan Youderian, 2024. "Parental care and cognitive skill development in early childhood," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(53), pages 6924-6929, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:56:y:2024:i:53:p:6924-6929
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2277683
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