Bell, Brian; Costa, Rui; Machin, Stephen - 2018
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 … incapacitation effect and a more sustained, longer run crime reducing effect. In contrast to the previous research looking at earlier …