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Wandering astray : teenagers' choices of schooling and crime
Fu, Chao; Grau, Nicolás; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 2, pp. 387-424
arrested by age 18 and a 13% increase in the fraction of those consistently enrolled throughout primary and secondary education. …
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The crime reducing effect of education
Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2010
In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources … from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269760
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Lost boys : access to secondary education and crime
Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; … - 2019
We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972527
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The effect of childhood conduct disorder on human capital
Koning, Pierre; Webbink, Dinand; Vujić, Sunčica; … - 2010
This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277127
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The crime reducing effect of education
Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2010
In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources … from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975627
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The effect of childhood conduct disorder on human capital
Koning, Pierre; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Vujić, Sunčica; … - 2010
This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962937
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The effect of socio-economic determinants on crime rates : an empirical research in the case of Greece with cointegration analysis
Nikolaos, Dritsakis; Alexandros, Gkanas - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 51-64
The present paper analyzes the relationship between the criminal offences, the function of the justice system and some of their socio-economic determinants in the case of Greece by estimating their dynamic interactions. The analysis covers the period 1971-2006 and the cointegration methodologies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009434
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The effect of degree attainment on arrests : evidence from a randomized social experiment
Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; … - 2016
United States' largest education and vocational training program for disadvantaged youth – as a source of exogenous … of education on arrests are very similar to the corresponding confidence intervals on the same effect from studies … exploiting changes in compulsory schooling laws as an instrumental variable in the estimation of the effect of education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450874
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Why Does Education Reduce Crime?
Bell, Brian - 2018
Prior research shows reduced criminality to be a beneficial consequence of education policies that raise the school … US education reforms, crime reduction does not arise solely as a result of education improvements, and so the observed … education reform from a different setting in Australia corroborates the finding of dynamic incapacitation underpinning education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910756
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Why does education reduce crime?
Bell, Brian; Costa, Rui; Machin, Stephen - 2018
Prior research shows reduced criminality to be a beneficial consequence of education policies that raise the school … US education reforms, crime reduction does not arise solely as a result of education improvements, and so the observed … education reform from a different setting in Australia corroborates the finding of dynamic incapacitation underpinning education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910664