@article{ref1,
title="Why does education reduce crime?",
journal="Journal of political economy",
year="2022",
author="Bell, Brian and Costa, Rui and Machin, Stephen",
volume="130",
number="3",
pages="732-765",
abstract="We provide a unifying empirical framework to study why crime reductions occurred due to a sequence of state-level dropout age reforms enacted between 1980 and 2010 in the United States. Because the reforms changed the shape of crime-age profiles, they generate both a short-term incapacitation effect and a more sustained crime-reducing effect. In contrast to previous research looking at earlier US education reforms, we find that reform-induced crime reduction does not arise primarily from education improvements. Decomposing short- and long-run effects, the observed longer-run effect for the post-1980 education reforms is primarily attributed to dynamic incapacitation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3808",
doi="10.1086/717895",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/717895"
}