The risk and time preferences of young truants and their parents

Emma Antrobus, Victoria Baranov, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Lorraine Mazerolle, Agnieszka Tymula

We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents.

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Year of publication:	December 2017
Authors:	Antrobus, Emma ; Baranov, Victoria ; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. ; Mazerolle, Lorraine Green ; Tymula, Agnieszka
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA
Subject:	adolescent preferences \| time preferences \| risk preferences \| RCT \| truancy \| Intertemporale Entscheidung \| Intertemporal choice \| Risikopräferenz \| Risk attitude \| Jugendliche \| Youth \| Eltern \| Parents \| Präferenztheorie \| Theory of preferences

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 15 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 11236
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/177040 [Handle]
Classification:	D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; I29 - Education. Other
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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