Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by … amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We address the potential endogeneity of the "legalization treatment" by …, regions in which a higher share of immigrants obtained legal status experienced a greater decline in non-EU immigrant crime …

. These findings are consistent with the predictions of a simple model of crime …

percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces adolescent crime by 1.3 per cent in the North of Italy but increases it …We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates … between different cohorts and at different ages that followed a reform that raised the school-leaving age in Italy. A 1 …