research
Research on Parenting, Children, and Families
Research on Parenting, Children, and Families
Many of these publications are available from Deep Blue.
Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) (UNICEF Data)
This research is conducted in collaboration with colleagues Shawna Lee, Julie Ma, Kaitlin Ward, Garrett Pace, and Jorge Cuartas.
- “The Association between Spanking and Physical Abuse of Young Children in 56 Low- and Middle-Income Countries”
- “Patterns of Caregiver Aggressive & Nonaggressive Discipline Toward Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Latent Class Approach”
- “Multilevel ecological analysis of the predictors of spanking across 65 countries”
- “Global Perspectives on Positive and Negative Parenting: A Bayesian Multilevel Analysis”
- “Spanking and young children’s socioemotional development in low- and middle-income countries”
- Open Access
- Data Visualization
- Child Trends News Service has released a well done video summarizing this research.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
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“Adverse childhood experiences and spanking have similar associations with early behavior problems”
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“Unpacking the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult mental health”
COVID-19
Colombia
- “Physical Punishment as a Predictor of Early Cognitive Development: Evidence From Econometric Approaches”
- “Physical punishment and Colombian children and adolescents’ cognitive and behavioral outcomes”
- “Civil conflict, domestic violence, and poverty as predictors of corporal punishment in Colombia”
Meta-Analysis of Research on Corporal Punishment
- Meta-Analysis of Research on Corporal Punishment [PubMed Full Text]
Corporal Punishment Bans
- Data Visualization of Country Level Bans on Corporal Punishment