The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents

Emma Antrobus (e.antrobus@uq.edu.au), Victoria Baranov, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Lorraine Mazerolle (l.mazerolle@uq.edu.au) and Agnieszka Tymula
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Emma Antrobus: University of Queensland
Lorraine Mazerolle: University of Queensland

No 11236, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents.

Keywords: risk preferences; time preferences; adolescent preferences; RCT; truancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 I29 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2017-12
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