We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …

We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post …-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The education expansion raised education levels across the … whole education distribution and, in particular for our analysis, at the bottom end enabling us to develop an instrumental …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women …'s propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their …