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Suspended from Work and School: Impacts of Layoff Events and Unemployment Insurance on Disciplinary Incidence

King, Jordan R
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4500-8172
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618923484201336

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2021, Master of Arts, Miami University, Economics.
The use of exclusionary discipline to mitigate students' bad behavior in schools has been associated with numerous undesirable outcomes for students subjected to these practices. Moreover, links between family economic stability and child socio-emotional and academic performance have been well documented and are implicitly associated with a student's behavior in school. The establishment of the relationship between an economically destabilizing event and changes in disciplinary incidence is of utmost importance for education and social policymakers. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to consider how layoff events affect disciplinary incidence when also considering the stabilizing impact of unemployment insurance (UI). Through use of administrative panel data on discipline for grades 6-12 and on layoff events in 20 states, we estimate the effects of layoff events on school disciplinary incidence in both the presence and absence of UI benefits in a two-way fixed effects model. We find that in the absence of UI benefits, disciplinary incidence increases by 40 to 112 percent with a one standard deviation increase in layoff prevalence. These undesirable effects, however, are successfully mitigated and even reversed as UI benefits become more generous, suggesting that these benefits are essential for stabilizing students in otherwise destabilized families.
Austin Smith (Advisor)
Riley Acton (Committee Member)
Deborah Fletcher (Committee Member)
51 p.
Economics
discipline, unemployment, unemployment insurance, middle and high school education

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  • King, J. R. (2021). Suspended from Work and School: Impacts of Layoff Events and Unemployment Insurance on Disciplinary Incidence [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618923484201336

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • King, Jordan. Suspended from Work and School: Impacts of Layoff Events and Unemployment Insurance on Disciplinary Incidence. 2021. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618923484201336.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • King, Jordan. "Suspended from Work and School: Impacts of Layoff Events and Unemployment Insurance on Disciplinary Incidence." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618923484201336

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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