Crime, compulsory schooling laws and education

Do compulsory schooling laws reduce crime? Previous evidence for the US 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 a...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Bell, B, Costa, R, Machin, S
Materialtyp: Journal article
Publicerad: Elsevier 2015

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