TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Physical punishment as a predictor of early cognitive development: evidence from econometric approaches
JO  - Developmental psychology
A1  - Cuartas, Jorge
A1  - McCoy, Dana Charles
A1  - Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew
A1  - Gershoff, Elizabeth Thompson
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This study estimates the effect of physical punishment on the cognitive development of 1,167 low-income Colombian children (Mage = 17.8 months old) using 3 analytic strategies: lagged-dependent variables, a difference-in-differences-like approach (DD), and a novel strategy combining matching with a DD-like approach. Across approaches, physical punishment at ages 9-26 months predicted reductions in children's cognitive development of 0.08-0.21 SD at ages 27-46 months. These results, plus null results of falsification tests, strengthen the argument that physical punishment leads to slower cognitive growth and illustrate the utility of alternative statistical methods to reduce problems of selection bias in developmental research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0012-1649
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001114
ID  - ref1
ER  -