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Classroom management, persistent bullying, and teacher practices in a discrete choice model of habit formation

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  • Mark D. Agee

    (Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, PA 16601)

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This paper develops an empirical model of habit formation to assess elementary school children's decision to engage in recurrent (persistent) bullying and to identify the teacher practices most useful in mitigating this type of bullying. The model is estimated using a balanced panel of 460 children from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development for 2000 to 2003. Results lend support to the habit formation hypothesis; in particular, a child's preference to bully, in earlier grades, can influence that child’s preference to bully again, in later grades. Teachers' self- and observed efficacy measures of classroom management and instructional practices are found to have a statistically significant impact on a child's likelihood of developing persistent bullying behavior. Results of this paper offer insights into the mechanisms that reinforce or temper persistent bullying, and can inform school-based interventions to improve school safety and the lives and education of students.

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  • Mark D. Agee, 2020. "Classroom management, persistent bullying, and teacher practices in a discrete choice model of habit formation," Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE), vol. 4(1), pages 5-16, December.
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    Keywords

    habit formation; elementary school bullying; classroom management; teacher practice; discrete choice models; random effects;
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    JEL classification:

    • D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions

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