Child mental health and cognitive development: evidence from the West Bank

被引：6

作者：

Juerges, Hendrik ^{[1
]}

Schwarz, Alexandra ^{[2
]}

Cahan, Sorel ^{[3
]}

Abdeen, Ziad ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Wuppertal, Schumpeter Sch Business & Econ, Rainer Gruenter Str 21 FN, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany

[2] Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Cologne, Germany

[3] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

[4] Al Quds Univ, Jerusalem, Israel

来源：

EMPIRICA | 2019年 / 46卷 / 03期

关键词：

Child mental health; Cognitive development; West Bank; SELF-RATING SCALE; DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE; DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS; ADOLESCENTS; DISORDERS; STRENGTHS; CONFLICT; VIOLENCE; INCOME; WAR;

D O I：

10.1007/s10663-019-09438-5

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Using data on students in grades 5 to 9 in the West Bank, we study the link between poor mental health and cognitive development. After controlling for a wide range of potential confounders in an entropy balancing approach, boys' cognitive test scores are significantly associated with self- and parent-reported measures of mental health. Boys classified as having abnormal mental health scores lag about one grade level behind their peers. Among girls, however, the relationship is weaker and-depending on specification-insignificant. We also show that poor mental health, in turn, is linked with reporting exposure to potentially traumatizing events related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

引用

页码：423 / 442

页数：20

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