the reform on youth crime rates and substance abuse using administrative police crime statistics, administrative student … a difference-in-difference approach. I find that the reform resulted in a decline in crime rates, which is almost … exclusively driven by a reduction in violent crime and illegal substance abuse. Regarding the latter, the rate of illegal cannabis …

the reform on youth crime rates and substance abuse using administrative police crime statistics, administrative student … a difference-in-difference approach. I find that the reform resulted in a decline in crime rates, which is almost … exclusively driven by a reduction in violent crime and illegal substance abuse. Regarding the latter, the rate of illegal cannabis …

Reducing Burglary Initiative and Educational Maintenance Allowances, only the former of which had crime reduction has an … explicit objective. Using difference-in-differences estimation techniques, the paper shows that in areas where both initiatives … neither programme was introduced. This is also a much greater crime reduction than for areas that introduced the EMA or the …

completion. We link the universe of case files of those who were convicted of a crime as a juvenile between 1996 and 2012 in a … in imprisonment to estimate the causal effect of incarceration on adult crime and on high school completion … no impact on future violent crime, but it lowers the propensity to commit property crime. Juvenile incarceration …

Reducing Burglary Initiative and Educational Maintenance Allowances, only the former of which had crime reduction as an … explicit objective. Using difference-in-differences estimation techniques, the paper shows that in areas where both initiatives … neither programme was introduced. This is also a much greater crime reduction than for areas that introduced the EMA or the …

We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates … percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces adolescent crime by 1.3 per cent in the North of Italy but increases it … by 3.9 per cent in the South. The crime-reducing effect depends mainly on incapacitation (i.e. adolescents stay in school …

severity imposed upon adolescents at age 18 deters violent crime by 10-12%. Results are robust to multiple techniques and … specifications. Using these results, we estimate an elasticity of crime with respect to sanction intensity that ranges from -0.145 to …