| Title: |
Crime, Compulsory Schooling Laws and Education |
| Authors: |
Brian Bell; Rui Costa; Stephen Machin; Jel Codes I K |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1374.pdf. |
| Publication Year: |
2015 |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: |
Crime; education; compulsory schooling laws |
| Description: |
Do compulsory schooling laws reduce crime? Previous evidence for the U.S. from the 1960s and 1970s suggests they do, primarily working through their effect on educational attainment to generate a causal impact on crime. In this paper, we consider whether more recent experience replicates this. There are two key findings. First, there is a strong and consistent negative effect on crime from stricter compulsory schooling laws. Second, there is a weaker and sometimes non-existent link between such laws and educational attainment. As a result, credible causal estimates of the education-crime relationship cannot in general be identified for the more recent period, though they can for some groups with lower education levels (in particular, for blacks). |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.699.693; http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1374.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.699.693; http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1374.pdf |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.44104A7D |
| Database: |
BASE |