Non-Production Benefits of Education : Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

Lance Lochner

A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these 'non-production' benefits of education with an emphasis on contributions made by economists

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Year of publication:	January 2011
Authors:	Lochner, Lance
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Welt \| World \| Kriminalität \| Crime \| Gesundheitsvorsorge \| Preventive care \| Bildungspolitik \| Education policy \| Demokratie \| Democracy \| Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein \| Social consciousness \| Bildungsinvestition \| Human capital investment

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w16722
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers.
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w16722 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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