We study the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past … education and criminal activities to affect current crime and educational decisions. We take advantage of a rich panel dataset … cognitive and social/emotional skills that feeds into the crime and education model. This allows us to separately identify the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

the former Soviet Union, the disadvantage in education reverses and differences in criminal sentences disappear once we …

It has been demonstrated that violent crime has profound effects on a number of socioeconomic outcomes. But, does day …-to-day crime also shape human capital accumulation? We answer this question in the Indian context by combining multiple years of … district-level data on the incidence of various types of crime with a nationally representative survey on learning achievement …

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 …

-run effects on the likelihood of being convicted of a crime by age 25 and on the number of criminal convictions by age 25. Effects … acquisition. We find little effect on juvenile crime. Using the method proposed by Angrist and Rokkanen (2015), we also estimate …

This paper estimates a tertiary eligibility effect on crime for Sweden. The idea is that investment in higher education …-incapacitation effect of higher education decreases crime rates. However, to invest in higher education, the individual has to meet the … invest in higher education, and thus escape unemployment or inactivity, their propensity to commit crime decreases. …