Dragone, Davide; Migali, Giuseppe; Zucchelli, Eugenio - 2021
We explore the relationship between high school dropout and pupils' adult crime by accounting for the role of the … intergenerational transmission of crime. We employ a human capital model of schooling and crime and show that the intergenerational … transmission of crime could have a direct effect on adult crime as well as an indirect effect mediated by high school dropout. We …