Prior research shows reduced criminality to be a beneficial consequence of education policies that raise the school … leaving age. This paper studies how crime reductions occurred in a sequence of state-level dropout age reforms enacted between … 1980 and 2010 in the United States. These reforms changed the shape of crime-age profiles, reflecting both a temporary …

the school environment and prior studies that fail to consider in-school behaviour may over-estimate their short-run crime …This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on in-school violence using individual-level administrative data … indicate that in-school violence increases. Effects concentrate among students with prior criminal records and their classmates …

papers, and two policy notes on Out of School Children (OOSC) in the Philippines. These PIDS papers examined the magnitude of … estimates of out of school (both in magnitude and rates) ; profile OOSC and their families, as well as provide a discussion of … the reasons why these children are out of school, and what makes children at risk of dropping out of school; and, discuss …

Based on administrative data for five cohorts of public school children in North Carolina, we demonstrate that those … born just after the cut date for starting school are likely to outperform those born just before in reading and math in … middle school, and are less likely to be involved in juvenile delinquency. On the other hand, those born after the cut date …

Based on administrative data for five cohorts of public school children in North Carolina, we demonstrate that those … born just after the cut date for starting school are likely to outperform those born just before in reading and math in … middle school, and are less likely to be involved in juvenile delinquency. On the other hand, those born after the cut date …

In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down … to about 5 percent. Adjusted net primary school attendance rates have increased from 90.8 percent in 2008 to 96 ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary …