Shifting parental beliefs about child development to foster parental investments and improve school readiness outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic gaps in child development open up early, with associated disparities in parental investments in children. Understanding the drivers of these disparities is key to designing effective policies. We first show that parental beliefs about the impact of early parental investments differ across socioeconomic status (SES), with parents of higher SES being more likely to believe that parental investments impact child development. We then use two randomized controlled trials to explore the mutability of such beliefs and their link to parental investments and child development, our three primary outcomes. In the first trial (NCT02812017 on clinicaltrials.gov), parents in the treatment group were asked to watch a short educational video during four well-child visits with their pediatric

SUBMITTER: List JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8486787 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature