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The Causal Effect of Parenting Style on Early Child Development

Margaret Leighton,
Anitha Martine,
Julius Massaga,
Emmanuel Bunzari

This paper presents causal evidence on the impact of parenting practices on early child development. We exploit exogenous changes in nurturing care induced by a parent training intervention to estimate the impact of nurturing parenting practices on child outcomes. We find a large and significant impact measured at age two; in contrast, at age four nurturing care has only a modest, and imprecisely estimated, impact on child outcomes. This is despite the fact that the intervention induced substantial changes in parenting practices at both ages. The differential relationship between child development and nurturing care at ages two and four explains the fade-out in treatment effects for the intervention as a whole: although parents continued to respond, their response no longer had the intended effect on child outcomes.

Keywords
early child development, parenting, family, early childhood, parenting style
Education level
Early childhood
Topics
Student Well-Being and Mental Health
Tags
Child development,
Parenting
Download 07/2024
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/g5vt-7b40
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Leighton, Margaret, Anitha Martine, Julius Massaga, and Emmanuel Bunzari. (). The Causal Effect of Parenting Style on Early Child Development. (EdWorkingPaper: -996). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/g5vt-7b40

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