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Impacts of child development accounts on parenting practices: evidence from a randomised statewide experiment |
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| Authors: | Jin Huang Yunju Nam Michael Sherraden Margaret Clancy |
| Institution: | 1. School of Social Work, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USAjin.huang@slu.edu;3. School of Social Work, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA;4. Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis study examines the impact of Child Development Accounts (CDAs) on parenting practices of mothers with young children in a statewide randomised experiment conducted in the United States. The experiment included 2704 primary caregivers of children born in Oklahoma during 2007: 1358 were randomly assigned to the treatment group and 1346 to the control group. Structural equation modelling suggests that the punitive-parenting score among treatment participants was .12 standard deviations smaller than that among control participants (p < . 05). Findings indicate that CDAs reduce punitive parenting, and may serve as an additional tool for positive parent–child interactions. |
| Keywords: | Asset building child development accounts economic intervention parenting practices punitive parenting positive parenting |