RT Article
T1 School truancy and welfare receipt dynamics in early adulthood: A longitudinal study
JF Journal of criminology
VO 56
IS 4
SP 441
OP 455
A1 Collingwood, Patricia
A2 Mazerolle, Lorraine Green
A2 Cardwell, Stephanie M.
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1888371978
AB School truancy is associated with many negative life outcomes, including violent, property, and drug offending, lower levels of education, and subsequently lower status and lower-paying jobs. These negative life outcomes are also related to future reliance on government welfare payments. This research sought to identify how high school truancy affects young people's welfare receipt dynamics in emerging adulthood. It uses longitudinal data from a nationally representative household panel survey (the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey) to estimate the effect of truancy on young people's likelihood of receiving government-paid cash transfers in emerging adulthood. We find that young people who are truant are over four times more likely to receive cash transfers than young people who are not truant. Findings also show that the extent of truancy does not impact the likelihood of welfare receipt, even when differentiating between infrequent and problem truants. We conclude with some comments on truancy's role in welfare dynamics.
K1 Truancy
K1 Adolescence
K1 Life Course
K1 Socioeconomic status
K1 welfare receipt
DO 10.1177/26338076231202047