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Scientific article 2022
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Daycare, school and education
  • The Social Sector, Children, Adolescents and Families, Daycare, school and education

Pushed out of the education system: using a natural experiment to evaluate consequences for boys

Authors:

  • Kira Solveig Larsen
  • Lars Højsgaard Andersen
  • Britt Østergaard Larsen
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Daycare, school and education
  • The Social Sector, Children, Adolescents and Families, Daycare, school and education
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  • Kira Solveig Larsen

    Researcher, Cand.scient.soc.

    +45 91 35 62 01
    kila@vive.dk
Objectives

To examine the short-term effects of admission requirements for upper secondary vocational education and training (VET) on enrollment and criminal offending among academically low-achieving boys.

Methods

We apply multi-group difference-in-differences models to full population data and analyze an educational policy reform in Denmark (N = 60,759).

Results

The reform caused a 16 percentage points lower enrollment in VET among academically low-achieving boys, and their risk of being charged with a crime increased by up to two percentage points 9 months after the end of compulsory school. However, after 12 months, the effect on criminal charges disappeared.

Conclusion

In the education-crime nexus, educational enrollment in upper secondary education is an understudied margin, which has important implications for both scholars and policy-makers. Limitations include the short follow-up period and that the analyses examine effects for boys only.

Authors

  • Kira Solveig LarsenLars Højsgaard AndersenBritt Østergaard Larsen

About this publication

  • Financed by

    VIVE, Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond
  • Collaborators

    Lars Højsgaard Andersen, ROCKWOOL Fondens Forskningsenhed
  • Published in

    Journal of Experimental Criminology
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