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Lee, Myoung-Jae Huang, Fali |
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Structural IVE for Dynamic Treatment Effects: Spanking Effects on Behavior Presented: Bristol, England, ESRC Econometric Study Group Conference, July 13-15, 2006. Also: http://www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/workshops/micro/documents/sept4Lee2_001.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Behavioral Development; Modeling; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Parenting Skills/Styles; Parents, Behavior; Punishment, Corporal Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Finding the effects of multiple sequential treatments on a response variable measured at the end of a trial is difficult, if some treatments are affected by interim responses; e.g., assessing the effects of spanking on behavior when parents adjust their spanking level depending on interim behaviors. A headway, 'G estimation', has been made in 1980's generalizing the usual static treatment effect analysis under 'selection on observables'. But G estimation is hard to implement. In this paper, firstly, we propose a much simpler alternative to G estimation– a single or multiple IVE's for a linear structural model–and show that our proposal and G estimation identify the same effect under some assumptions. Secondly, we explore the relation between our proposal and Granger causality to show that our approach is more general, although the two become equivalent for testing non-causality under a stationarity assumption. Thirdly, our approach and G estimation are applied to find the effects of spanking on behavior. We find that mild spanking at early years reduces a child's behavior problems later, which seems to differ from most findings in the psychology literature. |
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Bibliography Citation
Lee, Myoung-Jae and Fali Huang. "Structural IVE for Dynamic Treatment Effects: Spanking Effects on Behavior." Presented: Bristol, England, ESRC Econometric Study Group Conference, July 13-15, 2006. |