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 examine the intergenerational effect of education policy on crime. Using administrative data that links outcomes across generations with crime records, we show that the Swedish comprehensive school reform, gradually implemented between 1949 and 1962, reduced conviction rates for both the generation directly affected by the reform and their sons. The reduction in conviction rates occurred in several types of crime. Mediation analysis suggests that key channels include increased parental educational attainment and household income, as well as reduced criminal behavior among fathers.

JEL-codes: I24 J1 J18 J24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-lab and nep-ltv
Note: CH ED LS
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (46)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w18145.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective (2023)
Working Paper: The effect of education policy on crime: an intergenerational perspective (2011)
Working Paper: The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective (2011)
Working Paper: The effect of education policy on crime: an intergenerational perspective (2011)
Working Paper: The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:18145

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w18145

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().