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Child Abuse, Sexual Assault, Community Violence and High School Graduation

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  • Diette, Timothy M.
  • Goldsmith, Arthur H.
  • Hamilton, Darrick
  • Darity Jr., William A.

Abstract

Researchers from a range of disciplines have conducted studies to identify why one in five persons in the United States fails to complete high school. Our research contributes to this literature by exploring the link between violence victimization as a youth on subsequently dropping out of high school and years of schooling completed. This pathway has largely been neglected in prior studies, although about a third of all women and men report being the victim of violence prior to the age of 16. Using data drawn from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) and the National Survey of American Life (NSAL), our analysis reveals that females and males who are the victims violence are more likely to drop out of high school relative to their peers who report that they never were the victims of violence. In addition, these negative effects appear to be driven by the effect of home violence for both genders while men also experience negative effects from community violence.

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  • Diette, Timothy M. & Goldsmith, Arthur H. & Hamilton, Darrick & Darity Jr., William A., 2017. "Child Abuse, Sexual Assault, Community Violence and High School Graduation," Review of Behavioral Economics, now publishers, vol. 4(3), pages 215-240, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jnlrbe:105.00000065
    DOI: 10.1561/105.00000065
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    1. Guilherme Lichand & Carlos Alberto Doria & Onicio Leal-Neto & João Paulo Cossi Fernandes, 2022. "The impacts of remote learning in secondary education during the pandemic in Brazil," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 6(8), pages 1079-1086, August.
    2. Sameh Hallaq, 2024. "Class size reduction, bullying, and violent behavior: Evidence from West Bank schools," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 76(2), pages 545-595, April.
    3. Megan E. Fitzgerald & Annette D. Miles & Sislena Ledbetter, 2019. "Experiences and Strategies of Young, Low-Income, African-American Men and Families Who Navigate Violent Neighborhoods and Low-Performing Schools," Societies, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-36, January.

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    Keywords

    High School Dropout; High School Graduate; Violence; Trauma; Sexual Assault;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior

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