The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
利用英格兰和威尔士的义务教育离校年龄法律变化，通过断点回归设计发现教育水平提升显著降低了财产犯罪，表明教育是减少犯罪的有效政策工具。
In this article, we study the crime reducing potential of education, presenting causal statistical estimates based upon a law that changed the compulsory school leaving age in England and Wales. We frame the analysis in a regression-discontinuity setting and uncover significant decreases in property crime from reductions in the proportion of people with no educational qualifications and increases in the age of leaving school that resulted from the change in the law. The findings show that improving education can yield significant social benefits and can be a key policy tool in the drive to reduce crime.