Stephen, Machin; Olivier, Marie; Sunčica, Vujić - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2010
In this paper, we study the crime reducing potential of education, presenting causalstatistical estimates based upon a law that changed the compulsory school leaving agein England and Wales. We frame the analysis in a regression-discontinuity setting anduncover significant decreases in property...