Title: CAUSAL INFERENCE WITH GROUPBASED TRAJECTORIES AND PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING: IS HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT A TURNING POINT? Gary Allen Sweeten, Ph.D., 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Shawn D. Bushway Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Life course criminology focuses on trajectories of deviant or criminal behavior punctuated by turning point events that redirect trajectories...

BACKGROUND High school dropout and long-term sickness absence/disability pension in young adulthood are strongly associated. We investigated whether common risk factors in adolescence may confound this association. METHODS Data from 6612 school-attending adolescents (13-20 years old) participating in the Norwegian Young-HUNT1 Survey (1995-1997) was linked to long-term sickness absence or disa...

Although the goal of reducing school dropout rates is laudable and would surely produce many of the benefits suggested by Freudenberg and Ruglis (1), the simple truth is that this approach will not produce the most benefit for the effort and funding required. There are two reasons for this. First, the history of public education policy is littered with failed attempts to tackle the problem of h...

Background: This study aimed to examine the influence of future orientation on smartphone overdependence through depression among out-of-school adolescents and moderated mediation effect parental emotional support.Methods: analyzed data from Panel Survey School Dropouts with Process macro Models 4 14.Results: First, adolescents’ negatively influenced overdependence. Second, partially mediated T...

One of the primary goals set in recently approved National Education Policy, or NEP 2020 is to ensure that children are attending schools. Despite different government initiatives, including Samagra Shiloh's Angolan and Right Act increased enrolment students elementary classes, India has seen a significant increase dropout rates after Grade 5. recommended must first provide 'effective sufficien...