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The effect of childhood conduct disorder on human capital

This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) and twin fixed effects (FE) estimation approaches, we find that early (pre-18) conduct disorder problems significantly affect both human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour over the life course. In addition, we find that conduct disorder is more deleterious if these behaviours occur earlier in life.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4940

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Thema
Conduct disorder
human capital
twins
Kinder
Soziales Verhalten
Kriminalität
Bildungsverhalten
Humankapital
Kausalanalyse
Australien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Koning, Pierre
Webbink, Dinand
Vujić, Sunčica
Martin, Nicholas G.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Koning, Pierre
  • Webbink, Dinand
  • Vujić, Sunčica
  • Martin, Nicholas G.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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