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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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outcomes. For a sub-sample, we use caseworkers' risk-assessment to form a control group of children who were at risk of a …
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Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of …) observe non-incarceration events, (2) follow children throughout their childhood, and (3) measure adult non-biological parent …: prison - 9% of children born between 1999-2005, felony conviction - 18%, and any criminal charge - 39%. Charge exposure rates …
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We investigate the effect of having a child on parents’ criminal behavior using rich administrative data from Brazil. Fathers’ criminal activity sharply increases by up to 10% during the pregnancy period, and by up to 30% two years after birth, while mothers experience only a transitory...
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problems and obesity of male children at ages 12 and 13. It also lowers depression and obesity among adolescents, and reduces …
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