EDUCATION, WORK, AND CRIME: A HUMAN CAPITAL APPROACH*
构建人力资本模型，认为人力资本通过提高合法工作机会成本和监禁预期成本来减少犯罪。利用美国青年纵向调查和统一犯罪报告数据，实证支持年龄、教育与犯罪的关系，并讨论教育、培训、工资补贴及执法政策对犯罪的影响。
This article develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work and expected costs associated with incarceration. Older, more intelligent, and more educated adults should commit fewer street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline less (or increase) with age and education. Predictions for age–crime and education–crime relationships receive broad empirical support in self‐report data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and arrest data from the Uniform Crime Reports. The effects of education, training, and wage subsidies, as well as enforcement policies on criminal behavior are discussed.