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Author: Bjerk, David
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Measuring the Relationship Between Youth Criminal Participation And Household Economic Resources Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23,1 (March 2007): 23-39. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/d1p8w883k84w4606/ Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Crime; Economics, Demographic; Gender Differences; Household Income Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study revisits the empirical relationship between household economic resources and youth criminal participation. Data were obtained from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Contrary to previous research, the current findings suggested that much of the strength of this association may be obscured because of nonlinearities, the fact that the relationship is restricted to serious crimes, and, most important, error with respect to measuring household economic resources. Adjusting for these issues substantially increased the estimated strength of the link between household economic resources and youth crime. Indeed, the differences in serious criminal participation between youth from households in the upper parts of the income distribution and those from households in the lower parts of this distribution appeared to be greater than the difference in serious criminal participation between genders. |
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Bjerk, David. "Measuring the Relationship Between Youth Criminal Participation And Household Economic Resources." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23,1 (March 2007): 23-39.
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Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood Economics of Education Review 31,1 (February 2012): 110-122. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775711001506 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Crime; High School Completion/Graduates; High School Dropouts; Labor Market Outcomes This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who feel “pulled” out of school (i.e., they say they dropped out of school to work or take care of family) do similarly with respect to labor market and criminal outcomes in their early twenties to individuals with similar pre-dropout characteristics who complete high school. It is only those who feel they are more “pushed” out of school (i.e., they say they drop out for other reasons including expulsion, poor grades, moving, and not liking school) who do substantially worse than otherwise similar high school completers. These results suggest that any detrimental impacts from dropping out of school arise primarily when the drop out does not have a plan for how to use his time after dropping out. |
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Bibliography Citation
Bjerk, David. "Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood." Economics of Education Review 31,1 (February 2012): 110-122.
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