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Why Does Education Reduce Crime?
Prior research shows reduced criminality to be a beneficial consequence of education policies that raise the school 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 US education reforms, crime reduction does not arise solely as a result of education improvements, and so the observed longer run effect is interpreted as dynamic incapacitation. Additional evidence based on longitudinal data combined with an education reform from a different setting in Australia corroborates the finding of dynamic incapacitation underpinning education policy-induced crime reduction.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11805
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- Thema
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crime age profiles
school dropout
compulsory schooling laws
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bell, Brian
Costa, Rui
Machin, Stephen
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bell, Brian
- Costa, Rui
- Machin, Stephen
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2018
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