The effect of education on criminal convictions and incarceration: : Causal evidence from micro-data

• Autores: Randi Hjalmarsson, Helena Holmlund, J. L. Lindquist
• Localización: Economic journal, ISSN 0013-0133, Vol. 125, Nº 587, 2015, págs. 1290-1326
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 70% sample from Sweden's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. We find a significant negative effect of schooling on male convictions and incarceration; one additional year of schooling decreases the likelihood of conviction by 6.7% and incarceration by 15.5%. Though OLS estimates for females are of a similar magnitude to those for males, we find no evidence of a significant causal effect for women