Juvenile crime and the four-day school week

Stefanie Fischer and Daniel Argyle

Economics of Education Review, 2018, vol. 64, issue C, 31-39

Abstract: We leverage the adoption of a four-day school week across schools within the jurisdiction of rural law enforcement agencies in Colorado to examine the causal link between school attendance and youth crime. Those affected by the policy attend school for the same number of hours each week as students on a typical five-day week; however, treated students do not attend school on Friday. This policy allows us to learn about two aspects of the school-crime relationship that have previously been unstudied: one, the effects of a frequent and permanent schedule change on short-term crime, and two, the impact that school attendance has on youth crime in rural areas. Our difference-in-difference estimates show that following policy adoption, agencies containing students on a four-day week experience about a 20% increase in juvenile criminal offenses, where the strongest effect is observed for property crime.

Keywords: Crime; Inequality; Rural public policy; Education policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H4 H7 I0 I2 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.03.010

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