Education, work, and crime
Subtitle: a human capital approach
By: Lance Lochner.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10478; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10478.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work and expected costs associated with incarceration.  Older, more intelligent, and more educated adults should commit fewer street (unskilled) crimes.  White collar crimes decline less (or increase) with age and education.  Predictions for age-crime and education-crime relationships receive broad empirical support in self-report data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and arrest data from the Uniform Crime Reports.  The effects of education, training, and wage subsidies, as well as enforcement policies on criminal behavior are discussed"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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