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Social bonding, early school leaving, and delinquency

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  • Traag, T.

    (Externe publicaties SBE)

  • Marie, O.

    (Macro, International & Labour Economics)

  • van der Velden, R.K.W.

    (Research Centre for Educ and Labour Mark)

Abstract

In this paper we investigate how successful social bonding theory is at predicting juveniledelinquency and school dropout behaviour. We adopt a simple dynamic approach whichassumes that past involvement in risky behaviour reduces individual restraints forfuture participation in risky behaviour. We use a ten years education panel followingDutch adolescents who participated in a survey in their first year of high school in 1999.This information was matched to annual information on police arrests based on registrydata. Our results show that school performance (as measured by test scores) is the keysocial bond element preventing young people from engaging in risk behaviour. We alsofind that involvement in past risky behaviour increases the likelihood of future misstepsand that the protective influence of school performance is mitigated.
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  • Traag, T. & Marie, O. & van der Velden, R.K.W., 2010. "Social bonding, early school leaving, and delinquency," ROA Research Memorandum 014, Maastricht University, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA).
    • Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2010014
    DOI: 10.26481/umaror.2010014
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    1. Traag, T. & Lubbers, M. & van der Velden, R.K.W., 2012. "That's what friends are for? The impact of peer characteristics on early school-leaving," Research Memorandum 023, Maastricht University, Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organization (METEOR).

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