Post-compulsory education and imprisonment

Kaja Høiseth Brugård and Torberg Falch

Labour Economics, 2013, vol. 23, issue C, 97-106

Abstract: This paper studies the causal relationship between education and crime. Using Norwegian register data, we estimate the effect of a post-compulsory high school education on imprisonment for young adults. The identification in the instrumental variables model is based on variation in the supply of school slots across school districts and neighborhoods. We find that the number of semesters in high school education has a strong diminishing effect on imprisonment. The effect is robust to model specification, but seems to be related to prior skills.

Keywords: Imprisonment; Crime; Post-compulsory education; Student achievement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2013.05.001

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