Abstract
This 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 34-47 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2 2019 |
Keywords
- Asset building
- child development accounts
- economic intervention
- parenting practices
- positive parenting
- punitive parenting
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