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the short and long term for parents, children, and society at large. This paper examines the causal link between teen age …
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the short and long term for parents, children, and society at large. This paper examines the causal link between teen age …
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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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Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
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rich set of individual, family, and neighborhood level factors to account for conditions that may be correlated with both … models to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the neighborhood and family levels. Furthermore, we exploit the … adolescents who suffer from depression face a substantially increased probability of engaging in property crime. We find little …
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