Drug Dealing, Incarceration, and Self-Employment

毒品交易、监禁和自营职业

• 批准号: 9809266
• 负责人: Robert Fairlie
• 金额: $ 5.64万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-01 至 2000-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9809266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Drug; Dealing; Incarceration; Self; Employment

Theoretical models of self employment posit that risk aversion, entrepreneurial ability, and a preference for autonomy are central to the individual's decision between self employment and wage/salary work. Absent actual measured of these factors, previous empirical studies have included crude proxies, such as age, education, marital status and spousal characteristics, in their econometric models of self employment. The empirical literature, therefore, has not been able to adequately test whether risk aversion, entrepreneurial ability, and a preference for autonomy are important determinants of self employment. A potentially superior proxy for these three factors is whether the individual sold drugs in the past. The nature of drug dealing makes it likely to be attractive to individuals who are less risk averse, have more entrepreneurial ability and have a preference for autonomy, all else equal. The relationship between drug dealing and legitimate self employment, however, has not been examined in the literature. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) will be used to investigate whether young drug dealers are more likely to choose self employment than non drug dealers early in their careers. This project will bring together research on self employment and the economics of crime to shed new light on previously unresolved issues in both literatures. The findings from this research will also provide insight into the extent to which governmental programs promoting self employment among youths, former drug dealers, and ex convicts can be effective.

自雇的理论模型认为，风险规避，创业能力和自主权的偏好是个人决定自雇和工资/薪金工作之间的核心。由于缺乏对这些因素的实际测量，以前的实证研究在自营职业的计量经济学模型中包括了粗略的代理，如年龄，教育，婚姻状况和配偶特征。因此，实证文献未能充分检验风险规避、创业能力和对自主权的偏好是否是自营职业的重要决定因素。这三个因素的一个潜在的上级代表是个人是否在过去出售毒品。毒品交易的性质使得它可能对那些不太厌恶风险、更有创业能力、更喜欢自主的人有吸引力，其他条件都一样。然而，在文献中没有研究过毒品交易与合法自营职业之间的关系。 来自全国青年纵向调查（NLSY）的数据将被用来调查年轻毒贩是否比非毒贩更有可能在职业生涯早期选择自营职业。该项目将把对自营职业和犯罪经济学的研究结合起来，以揭示这两种文献中以前未解决的问题。这项研究的结果也将提供深入了解政府促进青年，前毒贩和前罪犯自营职业的计划在多大程度上是有效的。