The ‘time-release’, crime-reducing effects of education spending

Bebonchu Atems and William Blankenau ()

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 209, issue C

Abstract: We analyze the response of violent and property crime to shocks in government education spending. The effects are significant, delayed, and persistent. This is consistent with government education spending working through the human capital channel in a time-release fashion.

Keywords: Panel vector autoregression; Education; Crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 I28 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110143

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