caa a22 4500 378898949 CHVBK 20180305123513.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040422xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1538-0653.1161 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1538-0653.1161 An Economic Assessment of Parents' Self-Composure: The Case of Physical Child Abuse [Elektronische Daten] [Mark D Agee, Thomas Crocker, Jason F Shogren] This paper uses a maximum likelihood procedure that accounts for unobserved heterogeneity in the sample to implement a preference-based model to assess factors that influence parents' likelihood of losing their composure and physically abusing their children. A basic supposition of the model is that parents prefer to deal with parent-child conflict by choosing tactics and behaviors that do not exceed a specified level of violence; however, endogenous parent and child behaviors and exogenous circumstances may arouse parents' emotions that cause this level to be exceeded. Our results suggest policy interventions that influence such circumstances and associated behaviors may strongly influence the incidence of physical child abuse. We estimate the ex ante annual value parents attach to risk reductions of self-composure losses associated with excessive parent-child violence. This value is shown to be greater than currently estimated annual savings in ex post costs associated with a comparable decrease in U.S. physical child abuse incidence. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Endogenous Risk nationallicence Physical Child Abuse nationallicence Self-Composure nationallicence Regret nationallicence Agee Mark D. Penn State University, mda4@psu.edu aut Crocker Thomas University of Wyoming, tcrocker@uwyo.edu aut Shogren Jason F. University of Wyoming, jramses@uwyo.edu aut Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 4/1(2004-04-22) 4:1 2004 4 bejeap https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0653.1161 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0653.1161 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Agee Mark D. Penn State University, mda4@psu.edu aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crocker Thomas University of Wyoming, tcrocker@uwyo.edu aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shogren Jason F. University of Wyoming, jramses@uwyo.edu aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 4/1(2004-04-22) 4:1 2004 4 bejeap CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter