Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177040 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11236
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents.
Subjects: 
adolescent preferences
time preferences
risk preferences
RCT
truancy
JEL: 
D81
J13
I29
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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