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Lifting Up the Lives of Extremely Disadvantaged Youth: The Role of Staying in School Longer

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  • Moschion, Julie

    (University of Queensland)

  • van Ours, Jan C.

    (Erasmus School of Economics)

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Using a sample of disadvantaged Australians, we compare trajectories of those who left school before 18 with those who left later, in terms of homelessness, incarceration, substance use and mental health issues. We estimate a staggered difference-in-difference to account for heterogenous treatment effects across cohorts and time. Results indicate that leaving school before 18 increases males' likelihood of experiencing homelessness, being incarcerated, using cannabis daily and illegal street drugs weekly several years after school-leaving. In contrast, for females the difference-in-difference strategy eliminates the correlations between school-leaving age and their outcomes. We also show that while parental separation and other adverse behaviours coincide with early school-leaving, our results are robust to accounting for these, providing support for a causal interpretation of our findings.

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  • Moschion, Julie & van Ours, Jan C., 2025. "Lifting Up the Lives of Extremely Disadvantaged Youth: The Role of Staying in School Longer," IZA Discussion Papers 17702, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17702
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    Keywords

    education; homelessness; substance use; incarceration; mental health; Australia;
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    JEL classification:

    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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