Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; … - 2019
We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by … during the first five years after admission. Crime is reduced both during and outside the school year, indicating that the … channel through which schooling affects crime cannot be explained by incapacitation alone. We find no effect on crime …