The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on
Human Capital

Dinand Webbink; Sunčica Vujić; Pierre Koning; Nicholas G Martin

The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital

Dinand Webbink, Sunčica Vujić, Pierre Koning, Nicholas G Martin

Department of Economics

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Abstract

This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) and twin fixed effects (FE) estimation approaches, we find that early (pre-18) conduct disorder problems significantly affect both human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour over the life course. In addition, we find that conduct disorder is more deleterious if these behaviours occur earlier in life.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Bonn
Publisher	The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Publication status	Published - 2010

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ID number: IZA DP No. 4940

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