Title: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child? Parenting Style and Cognitive Development of Adolescents
Speaker: Xianfang Xiong
Abstract:Using data from the 2014 China Family Panel Survey, we investigate how parenting style influences a child’s cognitive development with a value-added cognitive skill production function. We find generally consistent classification of parenting styles for each observation with three alternative classification approaches: Principal Component Analysis, aggregate score and discriminator. The ordering of the proportion for different parenting styles from high to low in our sample is authoritative, neglectful, authoritarian and permissive, respectively. With authoritarian parenting style as the reference type, we find children raised with either authoritative or permissive parenting style have higher comprehensive cognitive scores on average, after controlling other factors, and we find the influence of neglectful type is insignificant. Potential channels could be the child’s study time investment, intrinsic motivation and expectation of higher education, but not through mental health such as depression.
About speaker: Dr. Xianfang Xiong is an assistant professor in China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research (CHLR) at Central University of Finance and Econo-mics. Her research interest includes human capital measurement, labor economics, devel-opment economics and applied econometrics.
Date: Friday, December 17, 2021
Time: 12:30-13:50PM
Organizer: China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research, 608, Academic Hall