Larrikin youth: new evidence on crime and schooling

This paper reports new evidence on the causal link between education and male youth crime using individual level state-wide administrative data for Queensland, Australia. Enactment of the Earning or Learning education reform of 2006, with a mandatory increase in minimum school leaving age, is used to identify a causal impact of schooling on male youth crime. The richness of the matched (across agency) individual level panel data enables the analysis to shed significant light on the extent to which the causal impact reflects incapacitation, or whether more schooling acts to reduce crime after youths have left compulsory schooling. The empirical analysis uncovers a significant incapacitation effect, as remaining in school for longer reduces crime whilst in school, but also a sizeable crime reducing impact of education for young men in their late teens and early twenties. We also carry out analysis by major crime type and differentiate between single and multiple offending behaviour. Crime reduction effects are concentrated in property crime and single crime incidence, rather than altering the behaviour of the recalcitrant persistent offende

Does free education reduce early school dropouts? Evidence from a legislative reform in India

We examine the role of free elementary education in reducing elementary school dropouts in India following the legislative reform on provision of Universal Education in 2009. We find that the impact was significant across all districts on average, but was notably higher for those at lower levels of development. Our results highlight the importance of removing barriers to schooling mainly in the form of costs that enable children in poorer areas to continue schooling. Provisions of infrastructural facilities such as toilets are also found to play a significant role in reducing dropouts. Further, our findings indicate the need for developing amenities for disabled children. Higher literacy rates are significantly associated with lower dropout rates indicating the urgent need for targeted government policies that can uplift generations out of a perpetuating education trap

How do children of immigrants perform? Evidence from Australian nationwide standardized tests

We examine the educational achievement of children of immigrants and native-born parents in Australia, using nationally representative panel data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children linked to nationwide standardized examinations. The findings indicate that children of immigrants perform significantly better than children of native-born Australians in five subjects and three grade levels. While this reflects Australia's shift towards skill-based immigration policy, such a striking difference in performance based on the parents’ country of origin and/or linguistic background suggests a role for cultural capital. Further, children of Asian immigrant parents outperform children of parents from other countries of origin. Children with immigrant parents from non-English-speaking backgrounds outperform children of both English-speaking immigrants and native-born Australians. Using matching techniques, we compare children from similar backgrounds of native-born and immigrant parents. The results suggest that unobservables such as differences in motivation could be driving the comparatively higher achievements of children of immigrants

Fracture characteristics of vinylester resin under impact fatigue

The impact fatigue behavior of a vinylester resin was studied with a pendulum-type repeated-impact tester especially designed and fabricated for the determination of single-impact and repeated-impact strengths. A well-defined energy-endurance impact fatigue curve was obtained with a progressive endurance at values of the impact energy below the critical value, with the endurance limit sot at an energy level of 31 N mm, 17.4% of the single-impact energy. The nature of the crack propagation was investigated for a single impact as well as high, medium, and low impact energy levels with progressively longer endurance. The fracture characteristics varied with the impact energy imparted and the number of cycles endured. The rate of lip growth was high at the higher impact energy levels with a lower number of endurance cycles and low at the lower impact energy levels with longer endurance; the repeated impacts created large and small compressive zones through the bending of specimens with the development of long and short lips, respectively. (C) 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc

Differential positioning of functional cysteine residue (s) determines catalytic characteristics of adenosine kinase from divergent sources

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Long-term impact of exposure to violent conflict: Are there gender differences?

We examine gender differences in the long-term impact of childhood exposure to violent conflict on a range of behavioral traits by conducting a large-scale field experiment in the Indian state of Assam, which witnessed fatal ethnic riots in the early 1980s. We exploit an individual's geographic location and age at exposure to riots to examine the effects of varied exposure to violent conflict during childhood and early adolescence on their pro- and antisocial behavior, as well as their risk and time preferences. The results suggest that, as the intensity of exposure to riots during childhood increases, females show more prosocial behavior, whereas males demonstrate a higher degree of antisocial behavior. Our study offers important insights into the divergent effects of conflict by gender

Abstracts of 1st International Conference on Machine Intelligence and System Sciences

This book contains the abstracts of the papers presented at the International Conference on Machine Intelligence and System Sciences (MISS-2021) Organized by the Techno College of Engineering, Agartala, Tripura, India & Tongmyong University, Busan, South Korea, held on 1–2 November 2021. This conference was intended to enable researchers to build connections between different digital technologies based on Machine Intelligence, Image Processing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Conference Title: 1st International Conference on Machine Intelligence and System SciencesConference Acronym: MISS-2021Conference Date: 1–2 November 2021Conference Location: Techno College of Engineering Agartala, Tripura(w), IndiaConference Organizer: Techno College of Engineering, Agartala, Tripura, India & Tongmyong University, Busan, South Korea