*Andrew W. Horowitz: Department of Economics, Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. Julie R. Trivitt: Department of Economics Sam M. Walton College of Business University of Arkansas Thanks to Kaushik Basu, André Portela Souza, and Chandra L. Hinton for helpful discussion and comments. Conclusions, implications, and errors are ours. Horowitz email: horowitz@walton.uark.edu; Trivitt email: jtrivitt@walton.uark.edu.
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Does Child Labor Reduce Youth Crime?
Article first published online: 24 OCT 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2007.00385.x
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Horowitz, A. W. and Trivitt, J. R. (2007), Does Child Labor Reduce Youth Crime?. Kyklos, 60: 559–573. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2007.00385.x
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*Andrew W. Horowitz: Department of Economics, Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. Julie R. Trivitt: Department of Economics Sam M. Walton College of Business University of Arkansas Thanks to Kaushik Basu, André Portela Souza, and Chandra L. Hinton for helpful discussion and comments. Conclusions, implications, and errors are ours. Horowitz email: horowitz@walton.uark.edu; Trivitt email: jtrivitt@walton.uark.edu.
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SUMMARY
This paper explores the nexus between youth-employment, youth-crime, and socialization in the context of the child labor debate in economics. The analysis draws upon both economics and sociology and suggests that neglect of the socializing benefits of youth (and perhaps child) employment in the economics literature is a potentially important lacuna. The sociology literature contains evidence that youth-labor reduces criminal propensity. If this effect extends to the youth who are the subject of the economics child-labor literature, potentially large private and external benefits of some-types of child-labor have been ignored. After presenting evidence of the linkage between youth-socialization, youth-employment, and youth-crime we consider possible implications for child-labor policies.