This paper estimates the effects of educational attainment and school quality on crime among American women. Using … probability of incarceration using Census data from 1960-1980. Using data from the 1960-90 Uniform Crime Reports, we also estimate … that increases in average schooling levels reduce arrest rates for violent and property crime but not white collar crime …

This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work … street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline less (or increase) with age and education. Predictions for age-crime … and education-crime relationships receive broad empirical support in self-report data from the National Longitudinal …