Effects of family background on crime participation and criminal earnings: an empirical analysis of siblings

This study exploits the sibling structure of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data to measure the degree to which family background explains the variance in the propensity to engage in criminal activities and in the intensity and success of crime participation as measured by the level of cr...

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Main Author: Liliana E. Pezzin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2004-09-01
Series:Estudos Econômicos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-41612004000300004