Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58839 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6142
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children of those affected. The effect operates only through the father and points in the direction of improved parenting rather than resources.
Subjects: 
comprehensive school
economics of crime
returns to education
returns to human capital
JEL: 
I20
I21
I28
K42
N34
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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