Rethinking the crime reducing effect of education? Mechanisms and evidence from regional divides
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Keywords
adolescent crime; school enrollment; incapacitation; human capital;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2015-05-02 (Education)
- NEP-EUR-2015-05-02 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HRM-2015-05-02 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAW-2015-05-02 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-URE-2015-05-02 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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