leads to significant increases in teen crime and pregnancy and a significant decrease in early-life employment. The effects … are concentrated among children from the most disadvantaged families, where teen crime increases by 18 percentage points …

entire decade. The magnitudes of incarceration, probation, and parole among black dropouts, in particular, suggest that crime …. Limited evidence on the returns to crime suggest that with the decline in earnings and employment for less educated young men …, crime offers an increasingly attractive alternative …

supported summer job in Chicago. In both experiments, the program dramatically reduces violent-crime arrests, even after the … summer. It does so without improving employment, schooling, or other types of crime; if anything, property crime increases … property crime than their control counterparts, and non-benefiters also show a decline in violent crime. These results do not …