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Title: Criminal Justice Involvement and High School Completion
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Hjalmarsson, Randi |
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Criminal Justice Involvement and High School Completion Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. Also: http://paa2007.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=7104 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Arrests; Education; GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development; Heterogeneity; High School Completion/Graduates; Incarceration/Jail Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper analyzes the relationships between juvenile justice system interactions and high school graduation. When controlling for a large set of observables as well as state- and household-level unobservables, arrested and incarcerated individuals are about 10 and 25 percentage points, respectively, less likely to graduate high school than non-arrested individuals. The effect of arrest, however, disappears when there is minimal selection on unobservables; in contrast, the incarceration effect is less sensitive to such selection and can be more readily interpreted as causal. An exploration of the mechanisms underlying the incarceration effect points most consistently toward an education-impeding stigma. |
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Hjalmarsson, Randi. "Criminal Justice Involvement and High School Completion." Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. |