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economists, who investigate the (often two-way) intersection of crime with labor market factors, such as education, wages, and …The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring … reduce crime. This comprehensive review underscores the transformative impact of economics on crime research and its …
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decreases in children's education and increases in boys' criminal behavior. …
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It has been demonstrated that violent crime has profound effects on a number of socioeconomic outcomes. But, does day …-to-day crime also shape human capital accumulation? We answer this question in the Indian context by combining multiple years of … district-level data on the incidence of various types of crime with a nationally representative survey on learning achievement …
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In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime-education …
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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 …
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education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a … secondary education. Methods: We follow four cohorts of Danish students (N=27,525) when they complete 9th or 10th grade and …
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-run effects on the likelihood of being convicted of a crime by age 25 and on the number of criminal convictions by age 25. Effects … acquisition. We find little effect on juvenile crime. Using the method proposed by Angrist and Rokkanen (2015), we also estimate …
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educational attainment and adolescent crime rates. Overall, we interpret this evidence as saying that there are no favorable …
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a limited number of studies have linked justice policies to outcomes beyond crime, particularly education, which carries … effects on education, and the earnings returns alone, are large enough to produce benefits in excess of the cost for the more …
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outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …
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