An equilibrium model of child maltreatment

Hideo Akabayashi

doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55501-8_1

An equilibrium model of child maltreatment

Hideo Akabayashi

Faculty of Economics

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We propose a dynamic equilibrium model of human capital development of a child that can explain why a parent-child relationship might lead to child maltreatment. Assuming that a parent cannot observe a child's human capital accumulation or effort, and that the child's time preference develops endogenously, an unstable path of the parent's beliefs regarding the child can persist in equilibrium when the parent faces a high degree of uncertainty in inferring the child's human capital. The parent with an initial high estimate of the human capital then tends to underestimate the child's effort, which results in persistently punitive-abusive- nteractions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics
Subtitle of host publication	Topics in Behavioral Economics
Publisher	Springer Japan
Pages	3-41
Number of pages	39
ISBN (Electronic)	9784431555018
ISBN (Print)	9784431555001
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55501-8_1
Publication status	Published - 2015 Sept 12

Keywords

Child development
Family education
Human capital production
Parental intervention
Time preference

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
Business, Management and Accounting(all)
Psychology(all)

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