Arrested development: relative school entry age and arrests during the teenage and young adult years

Asha Shepard

Education Economics, 2024, vol. 32, issue 3, 275-297

Abstract: A large literature documents that there are significant academic and non-academic differences between the youngest and oldest students in a school cohort. This paper investigates if being the youngest in a cohort has any impact on an individual's propensity to commit crime by utilizing a data set that contains over 4 million arrest records spanning a 20-year period in California. While I find no persistent effect on the probability of arrest, the youngest students in a cohort have a higher risk of arrest for certain offenses at age 14, corresponding to the age when they would transition to high school.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2023.2213865

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