In School and Out of Trouble? The Minimum Dropout Age and Juvenile Crime
利用美国各州最低辍学年龄法律的差异，发现提高最低辍学年龄显著降低了16-18岁青少年的财产和暴力犯罪逮捕率，支持了学校教育对犯罪的“剥夺效应”。
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between the minimum high school dropout age and juvenile arrest rates by exploiting state-level variation in dropout age laws. County-level arrest data for the period 1980 to 2008 and difference-in-difference-in-difference-type empirical strategy are used to compare the arrest rates over time of various age groups within counties that differ by their state's minimum dropout age. The evidence suggests that minimum dropout age requirements have a significant and negative effect on property and violent crime arrest rates for individuals 16 to 18 years old. The results are consistent with an incapacitation effect of schooling.