@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp11236, author={Antrobus, Emma and Baranov, Victoria and Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. and Mazerolle, Lorraine and Tymula, Agnieszka}, title={The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents}, year={2017}, month={Dec}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={11236}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11236}, abstract={We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents.}, keywords={risk preferences;time preferences;adolescent preferences;RCT;truancy}, }