ArticleDevelopmental psychology2020
Physical punishment as a predictor of early cognitive development: Evidence from econometric approaches.
Article in Developmental psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Physical punishment and lifelong outcomes in low‑ and middle‑income countries: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis.Nature human behaviour · 2025Pooled it
- The next 1000 days: building on early investments for the health and development of young children.Lancet (London, England) · 2024Review
- Corporal Punishment and Child Development in Low- and- Middle-Income Countries: Progress, Challenges, and Directions.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Review
- Physical punishment and child, adolescent, and adult outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.Systematic reviews · 2022Article
- Correlates of co-occurring physical child punishment and physical intimate partner violence in Colombia, Mexico and Peru.BMC public health · 2022Article
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- Physical punishment and child outcomes: a narrative review of prospective studies.Lancet (London, England) · 2021Review
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Abstract
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).
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