The effect of education on in-prison conflict: evidence from Argentina

Edgar Villa, María Laura Alzúa and Catherine Rodriguez

No 4546, Documentos de Economía from Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá

Abstract: Using census data for Argentine prisons for the period 2002-2005, this paperpresents evidence of the positive e¤ect that prisoner education programs (pri-mary and some part of secondary schooling) have on in prison conflictivitymeasured as sanctions or violent behavior of the prisoner. In order to over-come the problems of endogeneity that education decisions generate we usean instrumental variables approach. Our results show a decrease in partici-pation in violent conflicts and bad behavior which can be partially attributedto education.

Keywords: prison based education; violent behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2008-01-31
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