The Economic Determinants of Truancy

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

CASE Papers from Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: truancy; returns to education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-09
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