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The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 6, Spring 2012
The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 6, Spring 2012
Gettysburg Economic Review
No abstract provided.
The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 2, Spring 2008
The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 2, Spring 2008
Gettysburg Economic Review
No abstract provided.
The Genetic, Social, & Behavioral Factors That Motivate Parents To Abuse Their Children, Bradley M. Garner
The Genetic, Social, & Behavioral Factors That Motivate Parents To Abuse Their Children, Bradley M. Garner
Gettysburg Economic Review
This paper examines the influence of economic, genetic, behavioral, and social factors on the parental choice to abuse one’s child. I derive a choice model for the parents based on McFadden’s (1974) conditional logit model. Within society, the parent or parents not only bear the responsibility for their child’s well being, but also for ensuring the child will grow up to be an educated, productive member of society. Through the examination of individual parent and child behavior patterns, as well as numerous social and economic factors from the Physical Violence in American Families Survey of 1985, I show that after …
The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 1, Spring 2006
The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 1, Spring 2006
Gettysburg Economic Review
No abstract provided.