Cano-Urbina, Javier; Lochner, Lance - 2016
This paper estimates the effects of educational attainment and school quality on crime among American women. Using … probability of incarceration using Census data from 1960-1980. Using data from the 1960-90 Uniform Crime Reports, we also estimate … that increases in average schooling levels reduce arrest rates for violent and property crime but not white collar crime …