Violence during early childhood and child development
Author
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Berthelon, Matias
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Contreras Guajardo, Dante
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Kruger, Diana
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Palma, María Isidora
Admission date
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2018-08-31T18:29:02Z
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2018-08-31T18:29:02Z
Publication date
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2018
Cita de ítem
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Series Documentos de Trabajo No. 465, pp. 1 - 40, Junio, 2018
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Identifier
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/151433
Abstract
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We study the effects of violence towards children on early childhood cognitive and noncognitive
development. We use data from a longitudinal nationally representative
survey of Chilean children to generate estimates of exposure to violence (verbal and/or
physical), for two rounds of the survey conducted in 2010 and 2012, on two different
outcomes: one that measures vocabulary development (Peabody Picture Vocabulary
Test, PPVT) and one that measures socio-emotional development (Child Behavioral
Check List, CBCL). We contribute to the literature by providing estimates which control
for child-mother unobservable characteristics, improving on the literature that up to
know has used cross-sectional data. We find that being exposed to some violence has a
negative and significant effect on verbal skills of children. It also hinders socioemotional
development of the child, by increasing her behavioral problem in all three of
studied areas: internalization problems, externalization problems, as well as sleep
problems. We also find that systematic exposure to violence over time decreases child
development in both developmental areas. Finally, we study heterogeneous effects along
three lines: child’s sex, age, and maternal education level. We find that violence affects
girls in terms of their vocabulary development, and that both boys and girls increase
their behavioral problems, with stronger effects among boys. We also find that the
negative effects diminish as children get older, but they remain negative over the
complete age range in the sample. In terms of mother’s education, we find stronger
effects on children with lower educated mothers. Overall our estimations reveal that
exposure to violence has significant negative association with the cognitive and noncognitive
development of children.
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Patrocinador
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Diana Kruger and Dante Contreras acknowledge the financial support provided by the Centre for Social Conflict and
Cohesion Studies (CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009).
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Lenguage
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en
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Publisher
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Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios