Impact of parenting styles on cognitive and non-cognitive skills of young children: Evidence from rural Thailand

Abstract This study investigates the role of parenting styles in child development in Rural Thailand using early childhood panel data. Our results across various specifications indicate that an authoritarian parenting style was negatively and significantly associated with the child’s non-cognitive skills, whereas results for cognitive skills were generally insignificant. These results imply that parenting styles affect non-cognitive skills, but not cognitive skills, of children aged between five and eleven years. However, we found that the impact of authoritative parenting is less conclusive.