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Title: Early Parental Investment and Child Development Trajectories
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Hao, Lingxin |
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Early Parental Investment and Child Development Trajectories Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Breastfeeding; Child Development; Home Environment; Parental Investments; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Parental investment has been narrowly conceptualized as investment in formal education. Despite the recent attention to the productivity of early education, most research fails to consider early biological and social interactions. This paper seeks to fill in these conceptual and empirical gaps. Drawing advances from biological and social sciences we formulate an augmented child development framework that takes into account early biological and social environments from pre- and postnatal care, breastfeeding, infant care, to home environment of cognitive stimulation and emotional support. The empirical data are drawn from Children of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Growth mixture modeling is used to test the derived hypotheses. To enable causal inferences our models control for unobserved mother heterogeneity and child heterogeneity. Findings of this study advance our understanding of the enduring effect of early parental investment on children's developmental outcomes. |
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Hao, Lingxin. "Early Parental Investment and Child Development Trajectories." Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017. |