Aratani Yumiko, Cooper Janice L
National Center for Children in Poverty Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
The Carter Center, and Emory University Rollins School of Public Health Atlanta, GA, USA.
Youth Soc. 2015 Mar;47(2):173-198. doi: 10.1177/0044118X12456406.
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to examine the relationship between running away from home between the ages of 12 and 14 and dropping from high school among youth. Propensity score matching was conducted in estimating the effect of running away on high school dropout while controlling for confounding factors, such as familial instability and socioemotional health risks. The findings suggest that having runaway-homeless episodes have a detrimental effect on academic achievement.
本文使用1997年全国青年纵向调查的数据，来研究12至14岁期间离家出走与青少年高中辍学之间的关系。在控制诸如家庭不稳定和社会情感健康风险等混杂因素的同时，采用倾向得分匹配法来估计离家出走对高中辍学的影响。研究结果表明，有离家出走并无家可归的经历会对学业成绩产生不利影响。
