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Author: Gardiner, Karen N.
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Besharov, Douglas J. Gardiner, Karen N. |
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Preventing Youthful Disconnectedness Children and Youth Services Review 20,9-10 (November-December 1998): 797-818. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740998000450 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Disconnected Youth; Educational Attainment; Family Income; Fertility; Marital Status; Occupational Status; Psychological Effects; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction; Social Roles; Work History Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this article examined the characteristics (and later life histories) of youths who, during the 1980s, were "disconnected" from mainstream society, that is, they were not enrolled in school, not gainfully employed, not in the military, and not married to someone who was "connected" in one of these ways. The study followed 4,000 youths from 1979, when they were 14, 15, and 16 years old, through 1991, when they were in their mid-to-late 20s. Results show that 1 in 3 youths was disconnected for at least half of a calendar year. As adults, youths who were disconnected for a short time (in only 1 or 2 years) did not differ substantially from those who were never disconnected in terms of educational attainment, work history, family income, reliance on government programs, and marital status. However, those who were disconnected in 3 or more years experienced significantly greater hardships. This article suggests that school-related interventions (such as career-oriented education, after-school "safe havens," and targeting individual deficits) might help prevent youthful disconnectedness. ((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved) |
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Besharov, Douglas J. and Karen N. Gardiner. "Preventing Youthful Disconnectedness." Children and Youth Services Review 20,9-10 (November-December 1998): 797-818.
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Burgess, Simon M. Gardiner, Karen N. Propper, Carol |
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Economic Determinants of Truancy Working Paper No. CASEpaper 61, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, England, September 2002. Also: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper61.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: STICERD Publications Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Endogeneity; School Progress; Schooling; Time Use; Truancy Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school age youth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as the solution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive current returns from activities that reduce time spent at school. The model is estimated using a US panel dataset, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, and the estimation allows for the possible endogeneity of returns from these competing activities. The results show that truancy is a function of the estimated economic returns from work, crime and school. |
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Burgess, Simon M., Karen N. Gardiner and Carol Propper. "Economic Determinants of Truancy." Working Paper No. CASEpaper 61, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, England, September 2002. |
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Burgess, Simon M. Propper, Carol Gardiner, Karen N. |
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School, Family and County Effects on Adolescents' Later Life Chances Journal of Family and Economic Issues 27,2 (Summer 2006): 155-184. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/574tg055k2017568/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Family Characteristics; Family Influences; Neighborhood Effects; Poverty; School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; School Quality; Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper explores the links between family, school and area background influences during adolescence and later adult economic outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period 1979 to 1996, drawn from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. For a sample of individuals aged 14–19 in 1979, we estimate the association between family, school and area characteristics when growing up, on adult earnings capacity and poverty risk. We show that including all these influences jointly, family and school quality generally have significant associations with adult outcomes, but that area influences generally do not. |
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Bibliography Citation
Burgess, Simon M., Carol Propper and Karen N. Gardiner. "School, Family and County Effects on Adolescents' Later Life Chances." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 27,2 (Summer 2006): 155-184.
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