This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime-education …

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …

A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those … affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered … implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …

impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teens use or sell drugs, commit property crime, have sex, join …

commit crime by about two percentage points for juveniles but has no impact on damaging property. The results indicate that … between siblings and twins indicate that drug use has a significant impact on the propensity to commit crime. We find that the … inhalants or other drugs is an increase in the propensity to commit crime by 7 and 6 percentage points, respectively. …