The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective

Ulrika Ahrsjö, Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Marieke Schnabel

No 18145, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We study the intergenerational effect of education policy on crime. We use Swedish administrative data that links outcomes across generations with crime records, and we show that the comprehensive school reform, gradually implemented between 1949 and 1962, reduced conviction rates both for the generation directly affected by the reform and for their sons. The reduction in conviction rates occurred in many types of crime. The key mediators of this reduction in child generation are an increase in education and household income and a decrease in crime among their fathers.

JEL-codes: I24 J1 J18 J24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06
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