Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting

Paxson and Schady examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status, child health, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children from Ecuador and analyze determinants of their scores on the S...

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Main Authors:	Paxson, Christina, Schady, Norbert
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ADJUSTMENT ADOPTED CHILDREN ADULTHOOD ADULTS AGE GROUPS AGED ANEMIA ATTENTION BREASTFEEDING BREASTFEEDING DURATION CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD NUTRITION CHILDBEARING CLINICS COGNITIVE ABILITY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE OUTCOMES COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DEPRESSION DIARRHEA DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING EARLY CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS FAMILIES FATHERS GENDER GENERATIONS GIRLS HEALTH INDICATORS HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSING INFANT MORTALITY IODINE IRON LANGUAGE ABILITY LATIN AMERICAN LIFE EXPECTANCY LIVE BIRTHS MALNUTRITION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTHERS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OLD CHILDREN PARENTING PARENTS POOR CHILDREN RADIO RECOGNITION RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS SIBLINGS STUNTING VERBAL ABILITY WAGES WASTING YOUNG CHILDREN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/5796189/cognitive-development-among-young-children-ecuador-roles-wealth-health-parenting http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8929

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spelling	okr-10986-89292021-04-23T14:02:42Z Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting Paxson, Christina Schady, Norbert ADJUSTMENT ADOPTED CHILDREN ADULTHOOD ADULTS AGE GROUPS AGED ANEMIA ATTENTION BREASTFEEDING BREASTFEEDING DURATION CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD NUTRITION CHILDBEARING CLINICS COGNITIVE ABILITY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE OUTCOMES COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DEPRESSION DIARRHEA DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING EARLY CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS FAMILIES FATHERS GENDER GENERATIONS GIRLS HEALTH INDICATORS HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSING INFANT MORTALITY IODINE IRON LANGUAGE ABILITY LATIN AMERICAN LIFE EXPECTANCY LIVE BIRTHS MALNUTRITION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTHERS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OLD CHILDREN PARENTING PARENTS POOR CHILDREN RADIO RECOGNITION RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS SIBLINGS STUNTING VERBAL ABILITY WAGES WASTING YOUNG CHILDREN Paxson and Schady examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status, child health, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children from Ecuador and analyze determinants of their scores on the Spanish version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (TVIP), a widely used test of language ability. The authors show that median age-normed test scores on the TVIP are much lower for older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with more educated parents have higher scores. The associations of test scores with wealth and maternal education are larger for older children, suggesting that these factors have cumulative effects on cognitive ability. Last, the authors show that child health and measures of parenting quality are associated with performance on the TVIP. Children with lower hemoglobin levels perform worse on tests. Measures of parenting quality, in particular the degree to which parents are "responsive" and "harsh" toward children, and whether children are read to, account for a portion, although not the majority, of the association between socioeconomic status and cognitive development. 2012-06-25T15:27:15Z 2012-06-25T15:27:15Z 2005-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/5796189/cognitive-development-among-young-children-ecuador-roles-wealth-health-parenting http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8929 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3605 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Ecuador
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topic	ADJUSTMENT ADOPTED CHILDREN ADULTHOOD ADULTS AGE GROUPS AGED ANEMIA ATTENTION BREASTFEEDING BREASTFEEDING DURATION CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD NUTRITION CHILDBEARING CLINICS COGNITIVE ABILITY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE OUTCOMES COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DEPRESSION DIARRHEA DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING EARLY CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS FAMILIES FATHERS GENDER GENERATIONS GIRLS HEALTH INDICATORS HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSING INFANT MORTALITY IODINE IRON LANGUAGE ABILITY LATIN AMERICAN LIFE EXPECTANCY LIVE BIRTHS MALNUTRITION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTHERS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OLD CHILDREN PARENTING PARENTS POOR CHILDREN RADIO RECOGNITION RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS SIBLINGS STUNTING VERBAL ABILITY WAGES WASTING YOUNG CHILDREN
spellingShingle	ADJUSTMENT ADOPTED CHILDREN ADULTHOOD ADULTS AGE GROUPS AGED ANEMIA ATTENTION BREASTFEEDING BREASTFEEDING DURATION CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD NUTRITION CHILDBEARING CLINICS COGNITIVE ABILITY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE OUTCOMES COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DEPRESSION DIARRHEA DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING EARLY CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS FAMILIES FATHERS GENDER GENERATIONS GIRLS HEALTH INDICATORS HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSING INFANT MORTALITY IODINE IRON LANGUAGE ABILITY LATIN AMERICAN LIFE EXPECTANCY LIVE BIRTHS MALNUTRITION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTHERS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OLD CHILDREN PARENTING PARENTS POOR CHILDREN RADIO RECOGNITION RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS SIBLINGS STUNTING VERBAL ABILITY WAGES WASTING YOUNG CHILDREN Paxson, Christina Schady, Norbert Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting
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description	Paxson and Schady examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status, child health, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children from Ecuador and analyze determinants of their scores on the Spanish version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (TVIP), a widely used test of language ability. The authors show that median age-normed test scores on the TVIP are much lower for older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with more educated parents have higher scores. The associations of test scores with wealth and maternal education are larger for older children, suggesting that these factors have cumulative effects on cognitive ability. Last, the authors show that child health and measures of parenting quality are associated with performance on the TVIP. Children with lower hemoglobin levels perform worse on tests. Measures of parenting quality, in particular the degree to which parents are "responsive" and "harsh" toward children, and whether children are read to, account for a portion, although not the majority, of the association between socioeconomic status and cognitive development.
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author	Paxson, Christina Schady, Norbert
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title	Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting
title_short	Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting
title_full	Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting
title_fullStr	Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting
title_full_unstemmed	Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting
title_sort	cognitive development among young children in ecuador : the roles of wealth, health, and parenting
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/5796189/cognitive-development-among-young-children-ecuador-roles-wealth-health-parenting http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8929
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Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting

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