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Author: Zuppann, Charles Andrew
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1. Juhn, Chinhui
Rubinstein, Yona
Zuppann, Charles Andrew
The Quantity-Quality Trade-off and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
NBER Working Paper No. 21824, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2015
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birth Order; Educational Attainment; Family Size; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Using twins as an instrumental variable and panel data to control for omitted factors we find that families face a substantial quantity-quality trade-off: increases in family size decrease parental investment, decrease childhood cognitive abilities, and increase behavioral problems. The negative effects on cognitive abilities are much larger for girls while the detrimental effects on behavior are larger for boys. We also find evidence of heterogeneous effects by mother's AFQT score, with the negative effects on cognitive scores being much larger for children of mothers with low AFQT scores.
Bibliography Citation
Juhn, Chinhui, Yona Rubinstein and Charles Andrew Zuppann. "The Quantity-Quality Trade-off and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills." NBER Working Paper No. 21824, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2015.
2. Juhn, Chinhui
Rubinstein, Yona
Zuppann, Charles Andrew
The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Working Paper, University of Houston, October 2012 [Updated November 2014]
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: University of Houston
Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Birth Order; Educational Attainment; Family Size; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Labor Force Participation; Noncognitive Skills; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pearlin Mastery Scale; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Siblings

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We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We use two approaches: using twin births as exogenous shocks to family size and utilizing the precise timing of family expansion to separate out family size increases from total family size effects. We find evidence that families face a substantial quantity-quality tradeoff: increases in family size decrease childhood cognitive abilities, decrease parental investment, decrease educational attainment, and decrease measures of adulthood non-cognitive abilities.
Bibliography Citation
Juhn, Chinhui, Yona Rubinstein and Charles Andrew Zuppann. "The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills." Working Paper, University of Houston, October 2012 [Updated November 2014].
3. Zuppann, Charles Andrew
Children's Cognitive Abilities and Intrahousehold Parental Investment
Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Wage Levels

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I estimate how new information about children's ability leads parents to adjust investment within and across children. Using matched mother and child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 - Children Sample, I show that parents respond to improvements in a child's cognitive abilities by devoting more resources towards that child and improving the child's home environment. In households with multiple children, positive information about one child leads to compensating investments in other children. This concern for equity within the household leads to underinvestment in high ability children relative to a hypothetical set of parents that care only about maximizing the joint output of the children. These results hold both for childhood outcomes such as test scores and adult outcomes such as educational attainment and wages.
Bibliography Citation
Zuppann, Charles Andrew. "Children's Cognitive Abilities and Intrahousehold Parental Investment." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.
4. Zuppann, Charles Andrew
Contraception, Dating, and Marriage
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 2011
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Contraception; Dating; Marriage; Sexual Activity; Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

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One of the biggest changes in marriage and dating over the past 100 years has been the rapid advancement in contraceptive technology. My work addresses the questions of how this drastic change in access has changed women's sexual and marital decision making. I develop a model where individuals date before marrying in order to learn about relationship quality. While dating, individuals face the risk of pregnancy or contracting a sexually-transmitted infection (STI). The model predicts that contraceptive improvements increase the number of sexual partners, increase sexual acts, increase STI rates, and, under certain conditions, delay marriages and lower single motherhood rates. I use changes in states' over-the-counter (OTC) sales policies for emergency contraception as a natural experiment in varying access to contraceptive technology. Using multiple sources of data on birth rates, STIs, marriages, and sexual activity, I confirm the predictions of the model and find that OTC policies have a significant impact on sexual behavior and relationships. Applying the lessons of that model to the introduction of the birth control pill in the 1960s and 1970s, I find that access to the pill decreased stability for preexisting marriages.
Bibliography Citation
Zuppann, Charles Andrew. Contraception, Dating, and Marriage. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 2011.
5. Zuppann, Charles Andrew
Spare the Rod? What Can We Say About the Causal Effect of Spanking?
Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Parenting Skills/Styles; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Punishment, Corporal

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Over the past 30 years the probability that a mother spanks her child has substantially declined. Over the same time the negative correlation between spanking and outcomes has significantly worsened. I show that the decline in spanking is driven through changes in social stigmas surrounding corporal punishment. Changes in the correlation between spanking and outcomes over time can therefore be used to estimate a causal treatment effect of spanking for households who changed their behavior due to the increasingly negative stigma. I estimate this treatment effect to be significant and generally positive: spanking improves childhood test scores, educational attainment, and labor market outcomes. However, spanking has a negative impact on childhood behavioral problems and non-cognitive measures.
Bibliography Citation
Zuppann, Charles Andrew. "Spare the Rod? What Can We Say About the Causal Effect of Spanking?." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016.