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Does greater household wealth make young children perform better? The case of Vietnam
Author(s) -
Pham Thai Minh,
Tran Tuyen Quang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12448
Subject(s) - vietnamese , cognition , psychology , developmental psychology , vocabulary , association (psychology) , comprehension , reading (process) , cognitive development , cognitive skill , demographic economics , economics , political science , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience , law , psychotherapist
Our study examines factors affecting children's cognitive ability in Vietnam for the period 2006–2016. We find that conditional wealth has a positive association with the cognitive capacity of 15‐year‐old children, manifested in all three methods of measurement: vocabulary points, math scores and reading comprehension scores in Vietnamese. Notably, the finding implies that improving household wealth after the children's first 1,000 days still plays an important role in the cognitive development of 5–12‐year‐olds. Also, it suggests that using conditional wealth enables us to capture the impact of economic shocks, thereby having a significant effect on the cognitive ability of children.