Status (in)consistency in education and violent parenting practices towards children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3620253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luca Maria Pesando (0000-0002-1690-7163, McGill University, corresponding author), Elisabetta De Cao (0000-0002-7769-486X, University of Bologna), Giulia La Mattina (IZA - Institute of Labor Economics), Alberto Ciancio (0000-0001-5346-0885, Adam Smith Institute) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 351 |
| Pages | 116954 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116954 |
| PMID | 38759382 |
| OpenAlex | W4396812836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 57 |
Violent childrearing practices represent an invisible threat for global health and human development. Leveraging underused information on child discipline methods, this study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity and violent childrearing practices, testing a new potential pathway through which parental educational similarity may relate to child health and wellbeing over the life course. The study uses data from Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) covering 27 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Results suggest that couples where partners share the same level of education (homogamy) are less likely to adopt violent childrearing practices relative to couples where partners face status inconsistency in education (heterogamy), with differences by age of the child, yet less so by sex and birth order. Homogamous couples where both partners share high levels of education are also less (more) likely to adopt physically violent (non-violent) practices relative to homogamous couples with low levels of education. Relationships are stronger in countries characterized by higher GDP per capita, Human Development Index, and female education, yet also in countries with higher income and gender inequalities. Besides stressing the importance of female education, these findings underscore the key role of status concordance vs discordance in SSA partnerships. Tested micro-level mechanisms and country-level moderators only weakly explain result heterogeneity, calling for more research on the topic
Birth order · Concordance · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Inequality · Per capita · Population · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Child Abuse and Trauma · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |