Explaining the link between problem drinking and delinquency

Explaining the Relationship between Employment and Juvenile Delinquency.

Most criminological theories predict an inverse relationship between employment and crime, but teenagers' involvement in paid work during the school year is positively correlated with delinquency and substance use. Whether the work-delinquency association is causal or spurious has long been debated. This study estimates the effect of paid work on juvenile delinquency using longitudinal data fro...

Explaining the Academic Performance-delinquency Relationship

We use data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey to examine the relationship between academic performance and delinquency. We estimate the effects of grades in tenth grade on delinquency in twelfth grade, and then introduce controls for social bonds and self-control (teacher-rated effort). Our evidence suggests that the feedback that adolescents receive in the form of grades does not...

Explaining the link between HRM and organisational performance

Explaining the link between agentivity and non-culminating causation

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Explaining the link between agentivity and non - culminating causation ∗

This paper offers an account for why, cross-linguistically, denying the whole change of state encoded by causative verbs is easier with agent than with causer subjects. It does so by extending the theory of the progressive developed in Varasdi (2014a,b) to non-culminating readings of causative verbs, not only in progressive but also in perfective sentences. It additionally sustains two claims a...