In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …. Education and crime depend on different dimensions of heterogeneity, which takes the form of differences in innate ability and …

Student subsidies are large, ubiquitous, and very unevenly distributed in US higher education - covering, on average … to $24,000 in the top. So data on the distribution of those subsidies among colleges and universities identifies the … cost) are simply negative subsidies (cost minus price). Roughly a third of private two-year colleges, and doctoral and …

overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices. Education and crime depend on different … shocks. The model is calibrated to match education enrolments, aggregate (property) crime rate and some features of the … wealth distribution. In our numerical experiments we find that policies targeting crime reduction through increases in high …

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of … these subsidies on children’s longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on both parental and student outcomes. We find very small and …

The evidence for the effects of early childhood education on risky behavior in adolescence is limited. This paper …

Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

The evidence for the effects of early childhood education on risky behavior in adolescence is limited. This paper …

In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …. Education and crime depend on different dimensions of heterogeneity, which takes the form of differences in innate ability and …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the … juvenile arrest rates for violent crime but not for property crime. The estimates of social benefits show that it is less …