Baron, E. Jason; Hyman, Joshua; Vasquez, Brittany N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
in the U.S. Specifically, we examine the effect of school quality improvements early in children's lives on the … likelihood that they are arrested as adults. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in school quality due to increases in public … school funding, leveraging two natural experiments in Michigan and a novel administrative dataset linking the universe of …