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Title: The Role of Parenting Style in Child Substance Use
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Malik, Garima |
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The Role of Parenting Style in Child Substance Use Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, Department of Economics, 2005. Also: http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi/Malik%20Garima.pdf?osu1118077175 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Bargaining Model; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Drug Use; Modeling, Probit; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parental Influences; Parenting Skills/Styles; Parents, Behavior; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Strategic interactions between a parent and a child within a family have been deemed important in predicting the behaviour of the child. The dissertation adopts an interdisciplinary approach that uses the methodology of development psychology and the economics of incentives in order to develop an estimable model of parenting styles on substance use by children ages 10-14. The dissertation relies on the Baumrind classification of authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and disengaged parenting types, and constructs parenting styles according to the dimensions of demandingness and responsiveness. The economics of this dissertation relies on an underlying economics of intrahousehold bargaining reasoning that interactions between the parent and the child influence the child's decision on substance use. The model is solved based on exogenous parenting style but parenting style could be taken as endogenous as the data rejects the hypothesis of no switching convincingly. The NLSY-79 Mother-Child dataset is used and in the empirical specification a probit model is used for the different forms of substance use by the child to estimate the probabilities of taking substances. Disengaged parents are most likely to have children smoking and consuming alcohol and authoritative parents are least likely to have children smoking and consuming alcohol. The dissertation establishes the importance of family background factors in determining substance use, including parental substance use. Thus the economic models of household bargaining can be supplemented with variables from the development psychology literature. |
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Malik, Garima. The Role of Parenting Style in Child Substance Use. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, Department of Economics, 2005.. |