The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hjalmarsson, Randi; Holmlund, Helena; Lindquist, Matthew J.
• 署名单位: University of Gothenburg; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Stockholm University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12204
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1290-1326
• 关键词: juvenile crime; youth crime; REFORM

摘要

This article studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 70% sample from Sweden's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30years of administrative crime records. We find a significant negative effect of schooling on male convictions and incarceration; one additional year of schooling decreases the likelihood of conviction by 6.7% and incarceration by 15.5%. Though OLS estimates for females are of a similar magnitude to those for males, we find no evidence of a significant causal effect for women.