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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Misbehavior, education, and labor market outcomes
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Authors
  • Carmit Segal
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of the European Economic Association
Publisher MIT Press
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1542-4766
Volume 11
Number 4
Page Range 743 - 779
Date 2013
Abstract Text Using data on young men from the National Education Longitudinal Survey, this paperinvestigates the relationship between childhood misbehavior and later education and labor marketoutcomes. The main finding is that eighth-grade misbehavior is important for earnings overand above eighth-grade test scores. Moreover, controlling for educational attainment, childhoodmisbehavior is associated with earnings at all educational levels, whereas achievement test scoresare related to earnings only for young men with postsecondary degrees. Possible explanations forthe association between eighth-grade misbehavior and economic success are explored.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/jeea.12025
Other Identification Number merlin-id:7641
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