Combining cash transfers and parenting programs: Operational design considerations

Arriagada, Ana Maria; Rawlings, Laura B.; Trías, Julieta; Zumaeta-Aurazo, Melissa

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“…A range of other proximal processes may also mediate the association between socioeconomic risk and child language and the economic status of countries may moderate such effects. These processes include nutrition, pre-and postnatal healthcare, food and housing insecurity, toxicity exposure, the quality and quantity of parent linguistic input, and a nurturing home literacy environment involving early shared book reading (Anderson et al, 2021;Aram et al, 2013;Arriagada et al, 2020;Daelmans et al, 2017;De Bondt et al, 2020;Ellwood-Lowe et al, 2020;Gonzalez et al, 2017). Lastly, it is important to note that a mediation model of language is also potentially confounded by the genetic influence given that parental circumstances (SES, responsivity) and child language can be correlated because of shared genes or because genetically based characteristics of children elicit different degrees of maternal responsivity (Dale et al, 2015).…”

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A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children’s language

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A considerable body of literature suggests that children's language development is shaped by distal factors such as the availability of economic resources (Hoff, 2003;Pan et al., 2005;White, 1982) and proximal factors such as caregiver interactions (Madigan et al., 2019). It is important to consider how these distal and proximal factors operate together on child language skills. Ecological models of child development capture the idea that there are multiple embedded levels of the environment that have an effect on children, both directly and indirectly, including broad influences, such as culture, laws and the economics of countries to the child's more immediate experiences, such as the quality of parenting that they receive (e.g., responsive parenting). One way of testing this empirically, has been to use a mediation model to examine the distal to proximal to child outcome associations, capturing the idea that levels of the environment have knock-on effects (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998;Conger et al., 1994;Lerner et al., 2005). Specifically, distal factors such as socioeconomic status (SES) are hypothesized to shape child language via environmentally transmitted effects on parental responsivity. While single studies have examined the indirect effect of SES on children's language through parental responsivity (Mistry et al., 2008;Morisset et al., 1990;Raviv et al., 2004), there is currently no integrated synthesis that speaks to the strength of this indirect effect, nor the factors that may moderate it. A novel method known as meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) combines the advantages of meta-analysis with those of

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A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children’s language

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“…Unlike in other studies, where the reduction of external risks increased the reliability in investment returns and thus investment per child (Gibson and Lawson, 2011), Roma maternal investment decreased with a receipt of welfare. In contrast to other studies, this finding indicates that the extent to which the staterather than the parent(s)bears the cost of rearing children has a negative influence on maternal investment (see Desai, 1995;Del Boca et al, 2014;Arriagada et al, 2020). The Serbian welfare state guarantees the Roma benefits in healthcare, schooling, and social assistance incentives, alleviating hardships to at least a certain extent.…”

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The impact of welfare on maternal investment and sibling competition: evidence from Serbian Roma communities

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2023

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Siblings compete for limited parental resources, which can result in a trade-off between family size and child growth outcomes. Welfare incentives may improve parental circumstances in large families by compensating for the additional costs of an extra child and increasing the resources available to a family. The improvements in conditions may influence parents to increase their investment, expecting greater returns from the investment in child survival and development, while in turn increase sibling competition for the investment. This study assessed whether welfare benefits have influenced parental investment trade-offs and competition between siblings among Serbian Roma, a population largely dependent on welfare. Using data from the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 6, this study assessed the associations between maternal investment, child cash benefits, sibship size, and child anthropometry, as an indicator of health, among 1096 Serbian Roma children aged 0 to 59 months. Living in a small family benefited Roma children, while the incentives increased competition between siblings. Maternal investment was negatively associated with incentives, as the improvements brought about were insufficient to influence a change in maternal perceptions about the local setting uncertainty and thus promote an increase in investment.

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“…A range of other proximal processes may also mediate the association between socioeconomic risk and child language and the economic status of countries may moderate such effects. These processes include nutrition, pre-and postnatal healthcare, food and housing insecurity, toxicity exposure, the quality and quantity of parent linguistic input, and a nurturing home literacy environment involving early shared book reading Aram et al, 2013;Arriagada et al, 2020;Daelmans et al, 2017;DeBondt et al, 2020;Ellwood-Lowe., et al, 2020;Gonzales et al, 2017). Lastly, it is important to note that a mediation model of language is also potentially confounded by genetic influence given that parental circumstances (socioeconomic status, responsivity) and child language can be correlated because of shared genes or because genetically based characteristics of children elicit different degrees of maternal responsivity (Dale et al, 2015).…”

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Erratum: A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children's language

2022

Child Development

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This meta-analysis tested maternal responsivity as a mediator of the association between socioeconomic risk and children's preschool language abilities. The search included studies up to 2017 and meta-analytic structural equation modelling (MASEM), allowed us to examine the magnitude of the indirect effect across 17 studies (k=19). The meta-analysis included 6433 predominantly White, English speaking children (mean age= 36 months; 50% female) from Western, industrialized countries. All paths in the model were statistically significant, notably, the indirect effect was significant (b=-.052), showing that maternal responsivity may be a proximal intervening variable between socioeconomic risk and children's language development. Moderator analyses found that the indirect effect was stronger for sensitive parenting than warmth and when parenting was assessed in the family home.

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Combining cash transfers and parenting programs: Operational design considerations

Cited by 9 publications

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A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children’s language

A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children’s language

The impact of welfare on maternal investment and sibling competition: evidence from Serbian Roma communities

Erratum: A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children's language

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