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This Joint Advisory Note on the Democratic Republic of the Congo discusses economic growth and employment-creating sectors. The agriculture and mining sectors are projected to continue their expansion, while simultaneously raising labor productivity and freeing up labor. The urban population is...
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Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully...
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More and more children do not grow up in traditional nuclear fam- ilies. Instead, they grow up in single-parent households or in fami- lies with a step-parent. Hence, it is important to improve our under- standing of the impact of "shocks" in family structure due to parental relationship...
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inflation, unemployment, investment, education and health are examined through an annual data set from 1980 to 2007. To test the …. Results show that education and health have a positive and significant relationship with most of the criminal activities in …
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outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …
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percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth …'s Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …
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Due to the large social costs of juvenile crime, policymakers have long been concerned about its causes. In the 2009 … Education and cancelling class for seventeen instructional days. We examine the effects of this unusually short school year to … draw conclusions about the relationship of time in school with juvenile crime rates. We calculate marginal effects from a …
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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. …
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Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851157
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 …
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