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Ambrose Leung

Delinquency, Social Institutions, and Capital Accumulation

Section: Articles
Volume 158 (2002) / Issue 3, pp. 420-440 (21)
Published 09.07.2018
DOI 10.1628/0932456022975358
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Summary
This paper models the link between teenage delinquency rates and underlying measures of human and social capital and tests its predictions on a large Montreal database. The model allows teenagers to choose among a number of competing time uses, and the empirical work uses binary and ordered choice models to test the theoretical predictions of the effects of participation in various social institutions.