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Bad behavior : delinquency, arrest and early school leaving
Ward, Shannon; Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015
account the proportion of young men affected by delinquency and arrest, that the overall reduction in education due to …In this paper we investigate the effects of delinquency and arrest on school leaving using information on males from … account for common unobserved confounders and reverse causality. Our key finding is that delinquency as well as arrest leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308444
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Bad behavior : delinquency, arrest and early school leaving
Ward, Shannon; Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349893
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Bad Behavior : Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving
Ward, Shannon - 2015
account the proportion of young men affected by delinquency and arrest, that the overall reduction in education due to …In this paper we investigate the effects of delinquency and arrest on school leaving using information on males from … account for common unobserved confounders and reverse causality. Our key finding is that delinquency as well as arrest leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016233
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The effect of grade retention on adult crime: evidence from a test-based promotion policy
Eren, Ozkan; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Mocan, Naci - 2020
This paper presents the first analysis in the literature of the effect of test-based grade retention on adult criminal convictions. We exploit math and English test cutoffs for promotion to ninth grade in Louisiana using administrative data on all public K-12 students combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296116
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Bad Behavior : Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving
Ward, Shannon - 2015
account the proportion of young men affected by delinquency and arrest, that the overall reduction in education due to …In this paper we investigate the effects of delinquency and arrest on school leaving using information on males from … account for common unobserved confounders and reverse causality. Our key finding is that delinquency as well as arrest leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017372
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301665
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The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime : Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy
Eren, Ozkan; Lovenheim, Michael; Mocan, Naci H. - 2021
This paper presents the first analysis in the literature of the effect of test-based grade retention on adult criminal convictions. We exploit math and English test cutoffs for promotion to ninth grade in Louisiana using administrative data on all public K-12 students combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213469
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Ugly Criminals
Mocan, Naci H.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059082
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School and crime
Jones, Todd R.; Karger, Ezra - 2023
exacerbates preexisting sex-based and race-based inequality in reported crime and arrest rates, increasing both the Black …-white and male-female gap in reported juvenile crime and arrest rates by more than 40%. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014387869
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Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?
Albaek, Karsten; Leth‐Petersen, Søren; le Maire, Daniel - 2023
Draft lottery data combined with Danish longitudinal administrative records show that military service can reduce criminal activity for youth offenders. For this group property crime is reduced, and our results indicate that the effect is unlikely to be the result of incapacitation only. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259709