Dynamic Treatment Effect Analysis of TV Effects on Child Cognitive Development

• 主要作者: HUANG, Fali
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• 主題: TV watching; treatment effect; panel data; dynamic model; Granger causality; Behavioral Economics
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1128; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2127/viewcontent/TvEffect20070921.pdf

We investigate whether TV watching at ages 6-7 and 8-9 affects cognitive development measured by math and reading scores at ages 8-9 using a rich childhood longitudinal sample from NLSY79. Dynamic panel data models are estimated to handle the unobserved child-specific factor, endogeneity of TV watchin...