Marie Falcone (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, and The Lincy Institute) is the lead author of "Ending Corporal Punishment of Preschool-age Children," a public policy paper published on the "Brown Center Chalkboard," a Brookings Institution blog. The paper discusses the prevalence of corporal punishment within 23 states and its effects on children, urging the need for legislative action. Falcone was a 2020 summer research intern for the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. She currently is pursuing a major in political science and is a Brookings public policy minor student.