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School Size and Youth Violence

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Ambrose Leung () (Department of Economics, Bishop's University)
J. Stephen Ferris () (Department of Economics, Carleton University)

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This paper investigates one aspect of the relationship between school size and education outcomes-- whether school size is associated with youth violence. The importance of this question is underlined by the prevalent view that large school sizes are needed to realize production scale economies. Such a consensus would need to be revisited if such cost savings were counterbalanced by students' growing frustration, higher dropout rates and student violence. Recently the effect of school size on school violence has been analyzed with data collected from U.S. schools. However, the use of school centered data may create its own "selection bias". A main goal of this paper is to retest the hypothesis on a micro-database centered on youth. Using a sample of inner city Montreal males, self-reported incidents of violent behaviour are used to see if school size has an independent effect on youth violence. Other demographic characteristics are included as controls.

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Paper provided by Carleton University, Department of Economics in its series Carleton Economic Papers with number 02-10.

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Keywords: scale economies in education; youth violence; delinquency; school size;

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  1. J. S. Ferris & E. G. West, 2004. "Economies of scale, school violence and the optimal size of schools," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 36(15), pages 1677-1684, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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