In this paper, we use newly available data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate the effects of early motherhood on academic and behavioral outcomes for children born to early childbearers. We find that early motherhood’s strong negative correlation with children’s test scores and positive correlation with children’s grade repetition is almost entirely explained by pre-b...

Delinquency and problem behavior intention were examined in 3328 secondary one students in Hong Kong. Over 60 % of the respondents had cheated and spoken foul language over the past year, but majority had never engaged in other problem behaviors, such as sexual intercourse, staying outside their home overnight, gang fi ghting, and truancy. A signifi cant proportion of the respondents would atte...

Not completing upper secondary education is often presignaled by truancy from school. Student-perceived social support family, peers, and teachers can prevent the risk of not education. However, prior studies have focused on stability across school transitions. This longitudinal study 1901 Finnish students examined extent to which was stable or specific primary, lower secondary, schools. Moreov...