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Title: Spare the Rod? What Can We Say About the Causal Effect of Spanking?
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Zuppann, Charles Andrew |
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Spare the Rod? What Can We Say About the Causal Effect of Spanking? Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Parenting Skills/Styles; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Punishment, Corporal Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past 30 years the probability that a mother spanks her child has substantially declined. Over the same time the negative correlation between spanking and outcomes has significantly worsened. I show that the decline in spanking is driven through changes in social stigmas surrounding corporal punishment. Changes in the correlation between spanking and outcomes over time can therefore be used to estimate a causal treatment effect of spanking for households who changed their behavior due to the increasingly negative stigma. I estimate this treatment effect to be significant and generally positive: spanking improves childhood test scores, educational attainment, and labor market outcomes. However, spanking has a negative impact on childhood behavioral problems and non-cognitive measures. |
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Zuppann, Charles Andrew. "Spare the Rod? What Can We Say About the Causal Effect of Spanking?." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |