The Effects of Early Childhood Grandparenting on Middle SchoolStudents Educational and Health Development(PDF)
《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2020年01期
- Page:
- 96-107
- Research Field:
- 社会学研究
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- The Effects of Early Childhood Grandparenting on Middle SchoolStudents Educational and Health Development
- Author(s):
- ZENG Diyang; HONG Yanbi
- Keywords:
- grandparenting; academic performance; cognitive ability; mental health; selfrated health
- PACS:
- -
- DOI:
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- Abstract:
- Grandparenting is a prevalent childcare pattern in China, while its effects on children are still in debate. Using Chinese Education Panel Study(CEPS)baseline data, this paper analyzed the factors influencing families decision on care giver in early childhood, and examined the effects of early childhood grandparenting on children educational(academic performance and cognitive ability)and health outcomes(mental health and selfrated health)in middle schools. First, the results show that, before primary school, more than a quarter of the children are primarily cared by grandparents. Second, the parents in urban areas who have higher education level, are more inclined to adopt grandparenting for their children. However, this pattern is not significant in rural areas. Third, simple OLS and ordinal logit regression results indicate that early childhood grandparenting has no significant effects on children s academic performance and cognitive scores in middle school, but plays significant negative effects on children s mental health and selfrated health. The propensity scores matching method also support this conclusion from simple regressions. Fourth, there are differential family background effects of early childhood grandparenting on students academic performance and cognitive ability, favoring the children from families with low parental education.
Last Update: 2020-02-15