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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 …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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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 …
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-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 …
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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 …
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education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a … secondary education. Methods: We follow four cohorts of Danish students (N=27,525) when they complete 9th or 10th grade and …
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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 …
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