The impact of extracurricular activities participation on youth delinquent behaviors: An instrumental variables approach

Sehee Han; Joongyeup Lee; Kyung Gook Park

doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.05.006

The impact of extracurricular activities participation on youth delinquent behaviors: An instrumental variables approach

Sehee Han
, Joongyeup Lee
, Kyung Gook Park

School of Public Affairs (Harrisburg)

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The purpose of this study was to examine the association between extracurricular activities (EA) participation and youth delinquency while tackling an endogeneity problem of EA participation. Using survey data of 12th graders in South Korea (n = 1943), this study employed an instrumental variables approach to address the self-selection problem of EA participation as the data for this study was based on an observational study design. We found a positive association between EA participation and youth delinquency based on conventional regression analysis. By contrast, we found a negative association between EA participation and youth delinquency based on an instrumental variables approach. These results indicate that caution should be exercised when we interpret the effect of EA participation on youth delinquency based on observational study designs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	84-95
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Adolescence
Volume	58
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.05.006
State	Published - Jul 1 2017

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