Question

Write an article to be published in a School magazine Supporting or disputing the claim that less educated people are responsible for most of the crimes in cities ​

Answer 1

Answer:

We estimate the effect of education on participation in criminal activity using

changes in state compulsory schooling laws over time to account for the endoge-

neity of schooling decisions. Using Census and FBI data, we find that schooling

significantly reduces the probability of incarceration and arrest. NLSY data indicate

that our results are caused by changes in criminal behavior and not differences in

the probability of arrest or incarceration conditional on crime. We estimate that the

social savings from crime reduction associated with high school graduation (for

men) is about 14–26 percent of the private return. (JEL I2, K42)