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

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 …

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 …

a limited number of studies have linked justice policies to outcomes beyond crime, particularly education, which carries … effects on education, and the earnings returns alone, are large enough to produce benefits in excess of the cost for the more …

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

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 …

We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by … during the first five years after admission. Crime is reduced both during and outside the school year, indicating that the … channel through which schooling affects crime cannot be explained by incapacitation alone. We find no effect on crime …