MISBEHAVIOR, EDUCATION, AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES
利用美国全国教育纵向调查数据，研究发现八年级时的不良行为对成年后收入有显著影响，且这种影响独立于学业成绩；不良行为在所有教育层次都与收入相关，而学业成绩仅对拥有高等教育学历者重要。
Using data on young men from the National Education Longitudinal Survey, this paperinvestigates the relationship between childhood misbehavior and later education and labor marketoutcomes. The main finding is that eighth-grade misbehavior is important for earnings overand above eighth-grade test scores. Moreover, controlling for educational attainment, childhoodmisbehavior is associated with earnings at all educational levels, whereas achievement test scoresare related to earnings only for young men with postsecondary degrees. Possible explanations forthe association between eighth-grade misbehavior and economic success are explored.