Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252043 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9526
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on in-school violence using individual-level administrative data matching education and criminal records from Queensland. Exploiting a dropout age reform in 2006, it defines a series of regression-discontinuity specifications. While police records show that property and drug offences decrease, education records indicate that in-school violence increases. Effects concentrate among students with prior criminal records and their classmates, with greater exposure to in-school violence leading to increased criminality at older ages. Dropout age reforms may alter the school environment and prior studies that fail to consider in-school behaviour may over-estimate their short-run crime-reducing impact.
Subjects: 
youth crime
minimum dropout age
school attendance
JEL: 
I20
K42
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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