their relationship to school safety, school security and effective education management is rare. Deviant behaviour in the … form of rule violation, examination malpractice, truancy and assault are serious problems in the Nigerian education system … conviction on the part of the individual to obey the rules of the school and society be nurtured before, during and after …

propose a theoretical formulation in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands depending on personal, family …The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We … decisions, we test for peer influences. Our results first show evidence that alcohol abuse and truancy share unobserved factors …

related to truancy in third grade. These results stress the importance of early intervention for homeless children and …

Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school age youth. This paper takes the opposite view and … truancy is a function of the estimated economic returns from work, crime and school. … models truancy as the solution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive current returns from activities that …

the primordial focus. Using the Belgian (Flemish) disciplinary policy on truancy and school allowances as case in point …

This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort … Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic … is that both truancy and attainment are measured as ordered responses requiring a bivariate ordered probit model to …

Being the first born of a family entails inherent responsibilities. Sociologists, psychologists and economists have …

1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and 2010. Using family fixed effects models, we find a positive and …