Brilli, Ylenia; Tonello, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2015
We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates … percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces adolescent crime by 1.3 per cent in the North of Italy but increases it … by 3.9 per cent in the South. The crime-reducing effect depends mainly on incapacitation (i.e. adolescents stay in school …