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Title: Market Wages and Youth Crime
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Grogger, Jeffrey |
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Market Wages and Youth Crime Journal of Labor Economics 16,4 (October 1998): 756-791. Also: http://nber.nber.org/papers/W5983 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Modeling; Wage Differentials; Wages; Youth Problems To investigate the problem of widespread youth crime, a time allocation model in which consumers face parametric wages and diminishing marginal returns to crime is analyzed. The theory motivates an econometric model that is estimated using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Estimates suggest that youth behavior is responsive to price incentives and that falling real wages may have been an important determinant of rising youth crime during the 1970s and 1980s. Moreover, wage differentials explain a substantial component of both the racial differential in criminal participation and the age distribution of crime. |
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Grogger, Jeffrey. "Market Wages and Youth Crime." Journal of Labor Economics 16,4 (October 1998): 756-791.
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