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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP8646
	DP8646 The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data
	Helena Holmlund; Randi Hjalmarsson; Matthew Lindquist
发表日期	2011-11-01
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	This paper studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 25 percent random sample from Sweden's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a differences-in-differences design to account for the non-random implementation of the reform across municipalities, and finds that exposure to the reform increased average educational attainment by 0.28 years for males and 0.16 years for females. Our 2SLS estimates indicate that more schooling has a significant negative effect on convictions and incarceration at both the extensive and intensive margins. These effects are generally seen for both males and females. Specifically, one additional year of schooling decreases the likelihood of incarceration by 16 percent for males and the likelihood of conviction by 7.5 and 11 percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories.
主题	Public Economics
关键词	Crime Education School reform
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp8646
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537483
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Helena Holmlund,Randi Hjalmarsson,Matthew Lindquist. DP8646 The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data. 2011.