Wandering Astray: Teenagers' Choices of Schooling and Crime. NBER Working Paper No. 26858

Autor/inn/en	Fu, Chao; Grau, Nicolás; Rivera, Jorge
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Wandering Astray: Teenagers' Choices of Schooling and Crime. NBER Working Paper No. 26858
Quelle	(2020) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Decision Making; Crime; Delinquency; Education; Attendance; Foreign Countries; Disadvantaged Youth; Intervention; Access to Education; Tuition; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; At Risk Students; Self Concept; Ability; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Kriminalität; Bildung; Erziehung; Anwesenheit; Ausland; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Education; Access; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Selbstkonzept; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit
Abstract	We build and estimate a dynamic model of teenagers' choices of schooling and crime, incorporating four factors that may contribute to the different routes taken by different teenagers: heterogeneous endowments, unequal opportunities, uncertainties about one's own ability, and contemporaneous shocks. We estimate the model using administrative panel data from Chile that link school records with juvenile criminal records. Counterfactual policy experiments suggest that, for teenagers with disadvantaged backgrounds, interventions that combine mild improvement in their schooling opportunities with free tuition (by adding 22 USD per enrollee-year to the existing voucher) would lead to an 11% decrease in the fraction of those ever arrested by age 18 and a 17% increase in the fraction of those consistently enrolled throughout primary and secondary education. [This report was financially supported by Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (CONICYT/ FONDAP/15130009) and partially supported by the supercomputing infrastructure of the NLHPC (ECM-02).] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01