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Title: Economic Determinants of Truancy
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1. Burgess, Simon M.
Gardiner, Karen N.
Propper, Carol
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

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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.