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Source: Journal of Applied Economics
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Comanor, William S. Phillips, Llad |
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The Impact of Income and Family Structure on Delinquency Journal of Applied Economics 5,2 (November 2002): 209-232. Also: http://www.cema.edu.ar/publicaciones/download/volume5/comanor.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA) Keyword(s): Children, Behavioral Development; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Family Income; Family Structure; Family Studies; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Presence Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. There is no more important issue in the economics of the family than the impact of parents on the behavior of their children. By providing rewards and imposing constraints, parents seek to affect their children's behavior. The explanation of these actions is that the child's conduct directly enters into the parent's utility function. In this paper, we use that framework to explore the role of parental control over his or her child's delinquent behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate the impact of family income and various dimensions of family structure on a youth's contact with the criminal justice system between the ages of 14 and 22. From this analysis, we conclude that the single most important factor affecting these measures of delinquency is the presence of his father in the home. All other factors, including family income, are much less important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]. |
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Comanor, William S. and Llad Phillips. "The Impact of Income and Family Structure on Delinquency." Journal of Applied Economics 5,2 (November 2002): 209-232.
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Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo |
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School Quality and Labor Market Earnings: Some New Results on an Old Debate Journal of Applied Economics 26,1 (January 2023): DOI: 10.1080/15140326.2022.2163580. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15140326.2022.2163580 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Keyword(s): Earnings; Geocoded Data; School Quality; State-Level Data/Policy; Teachers/Faculty This study addresses an open debate in the literature about the direct effects of measures of school quality on workers' earnings in the labor market. Card and Kureges (1996) argue that the young sample that Betts (1995) uses understates the effects of the measures of school quality on earnings. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the measures of school quality on earnings at older age, using a recent version of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The replication of Betts' analysis show that the measures of school quality did not affect earnings when workers were young. However, the estimation shows that the percentage of teachers with a graduate degree significantly affects workers' prime-age earnings. The findings support Card and Krueger's claim that the measures of school quality affected workers' earnings at older age. More importantly, the results reconcile different findings from two strands of studies in the literature using state-level and individual-level data. |
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Bibliography Citation
Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo. "School Quality and Labor Market Earnings: Some New Results on an Old Debate." Journal of Applied Economics 26,1 (January 2023): DOI: 10.1080/15140326.2022.2163580.
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