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Baron, E. Jason; Hyman, Joshua M.; Vasquez, Brittany N. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This paper asks whether improving the quality of public schools can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the U.S. Specifically, we examine the effect of school quality improvements early in children's lives on the likelihood that they are arrested as adults. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in school quality due to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Crime Prevention
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E. Jason Baron; Joshua Hyman; Brittany Vasquez – Grantee Submission, 2024
This paper asks whether increasing public school funding can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the U.S. Specifically, we examine the effect of increases in funding early in children's lives on the likelihood that they are arrested as adults. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in public school funding, leveraging two…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Politics of Education, School Budget Elections