Implications of middle school behavior problems for high school graduation and employment outcomes of young adults
Subtitle: estimation of a recursive model
By: Mustafa C. Karakus ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16383; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16383.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  The potentially serious adverse impacts of behavior problems during adolescence on employment outcomes in adulthood provide a key economic rationale for early intervention programs.  However, the extent to which lower educational attainment accounts for the total impact of adolescent behavior problems on later employment remains unclear As an initial step in exploring this issue, we specify and estimate a recursive bivariate probit model that 1) relates middle school behavior problems to high school graduation and 2) models later employment in young adulthood as a function of these behavior problems and of high school graduation.  Our model thus allows for both a direct effect of behavior problems on later employment as well as an indirect effect that operates via graduation from high school.  Our empirical results, based on analysis of data from the NELS, suggest that the direct effects of externalizing behavior problems on later employment are not significant but that these problems have important indirect effects operating through high school graduation"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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