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DOES TELEVISION VIEWING AFFECT CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOUR?
Author(s) -
Huang Fali,
Lee Myoungjae
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2009.00468.x
Subject(s) - endogeneity , affect (linguistics) , interim , national longitudinal surveys , psychology , panel data , longitudinal data , longitudinal study , instrumental variable , developmental psychology , economics , advertising , econometrics , demographic economics , demography , geography , sociology , statistics , mathematics , business , communication , archaeology
Using three‐period panel data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we investigate whether television (TV) viewing at ages 6–7 and 8–9 years affects children's social and behavioural development at ages 8–9 years. Dynamic panel data models are estimated to handle the unobserved child‐specific factor, endogeneity of TV viewing, and the dynamic nature of the causal relation. Special emphasis is placed on this last aspect, focusing on how early TV viewing affects interim child behavioural problems and in turn affects future TV viewing. Overall, we find that TV viewing during ages 6–7 and 8–9 years increases child behavioural problems at ages 8–9 years, and that the effect is economically sizable.