Education, Work, and Crime: A Human Capital Approach

By Lance Lochner. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports (2004, neutral): “The key difficulty in estimating the effect of education on criminal (1)Lochner (2003) and Witte (1997) are notable exceptions. (2)Freeman (1996), Gould, et al. (2000), Grogger (1998), Machin and Meghir (2000), and Viscusi (1986) empirically establish a negative correlation between earnings levels (”
The effects of education on crime (2010, background): “Consistent with his human capital model of crime, Lochner (2004) also finds strong negative effects of education on property and violent crime, whereas arrests’ rates for white collar crime are increasing in average educational attainment.”
Crime and Poverty: A Search-Theoretic Approach (2004, background): “Indeed, several studies including Witte and Tauchen (1994), Lochner (2004), and 2 Similar disparities were observed between New York’s 1 precinct and 123 precinct, with per capita crime rates of 0.21 and 0.022 respectively.”
Are U.S. Cities Underpoliced? Theory and Evidence (2017, methodology): “The prediction is no less important in more recent treatments, such as the models discussed in Lochner (2004), Burdett, Lagos, and Wright (2004), and Lee and McCrary (2017), among others.”
In School and Out of Trouble? The Minimum Dropout Age and Juvenile Crime (2014, background): “On the other hand, Lochner (2004), Lochner and Moretti (2004), and Buonanno and Leonida (2009) illustrate that education is negatively related to adult crime.”
The Crime Reducing Effect of Education (2010, positive): “22 Other than Lochner and Moretti (2004) for the US and the results reported in this paper, evidence on the causal connection between education and crime is not available.”
Crime and Economic Incentives (2000, background): “…legal human capital may decline in prison in addition to depreciation effects (e.g., because of reputation effects), criminal human capital may increase if criminals in prison 14Other dynamicmodels of criminal participation include those byFlinn (1986), Lochner (2004), and Lee&McCrary (2009).”
Education and crime (2020, methodology): “For example, Lochner (2004) calculates that for each assault, the perpetrator can expect to spend 63 days incarcerated; however, the expected incarceration period for a burglary is only 13 days.”
Crime, Punishment, and Myopia (2005, background): “But it is also consistent with criminal behavior declining as youth finish high school and enter the labor market (Grogger 1998, Lochner 2004).”