Using State Child Labor Laws to Identify the Causal Effect of Youth Employment on Deviant Behavior and Academic Achievement

On the basis of prior research findings that employed youth, and especially intensively employed youth, have higher rates of delinquent behavior and lower academic achievement, scholars have called for limits on the maximum number of hours per week that teenagers are allowed to work. We use the Nati...

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Main Author: Apel, Robert (Author)
Contributors: Bushway, Shawn D. ; Paternoster, Raymond ; Brame, Robert ; Sweeten, Gary
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2008
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2008, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 337-362
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
Crime and deviance
Longitudinal data
Youth employment
instrumental variables
school performance
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