TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Why does education reduce crime?
JO  - Journal of political economy
A1  - Bell, Brian
A1  - Costa, Rui
A1  - Machin, Stephen
SP  - 732
EP  - 765
VL  - 130
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3808
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/717895
ID  - ref1
ER  -