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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime

Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …

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Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior

Tekin, Erdal; Scafidi, Benjamin; Mocan, H. Naci - 2002

Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on nonacademic outcomes. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that...

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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...

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Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Verhofstadt, Elsy - 2013

We identify hiring discrimination against former juvenile delinquents in a direct way. To this end we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market discrimination is indeed a major barrier in the transition to work for former juvenile delinquents. Labour...

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Parents, Neighbors and Youth Crime

Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2020

prediction of our model, this evidence reveals an important role of parents in mediating the impact of neighborhoods on youth …

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Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Verhofstadt, Elsy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from head start

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...

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Youth crime and education expansion

Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2012

variable strategy to study the crime-education relationship. At the same time as the education expansion, youth crime fell …

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Fathers and youth's delinquent behavior

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...

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Guns, drugs and juvenile crime : evidence from a panel of siblings and twins

Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2003

Using a nationally-representative panel data set of U.S. high school students (AddHealth data) that contains a relatively large sample of siblings and twins, the paper investigates the impacts of gun availability at home and individual drug use on robbery, burglary, theft and damaging property...

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