The Transition from School to Jail: Youth Crime and High School Completion among Black Males

Antonio Merlo and Kenneth I. Wolpin
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Kenneth I. Wolpin: Rice University

Working Papers from Rice University, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this paper, we study the relationship among schooling, youth employment and youth crime. The framework, a multinomial discrete choice vector autoregression, provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic interactions among a youth's schooling, work and crime decisions and arrest and incarceration outcomes. We allow for observable initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity, measurement error and missing data. We use data from the NLSY97 on black male youths starting from age 14. The estimates indicate important roles both for heterogeneity in initial conditions and for stochastic events that arise during one's youth in determining outcomes as young adults.

Date: 2015-07
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Journal Article: The transition from school to jail: Youth crime and high school completion among black males (2015)
Working Paper: The Transition from School to Jail: Youth Crime and High School Completion Among Black Males (2008)
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