This paper investigates the effect of early exposure to neighborhood crime on subsequent
criminal behavior of youth exploiting a unique natural experiment between 1986 and 1998 …

In the end, there is no program or policy that can substitute for a mother or father who will
attend those parent/teacher conferences, or help with homework after dinner, or turn off the …

Causal estimates of the benefits of increased schooling using US state schooling laws as
instruments typically rely on specifications which assume common trends across states in …

Household financial decisions are important for household welfare, economic growth, and
financial stability. Yet our understanding of the determinants of financial decision making is …

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 …

Every day, acts of violence injure more than 6000 people in the United States. Despite
decades of social science arguing that joblessness among disadvantaged youth is a key …

Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information
about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as …

This paper considers several possible channels behind the well‐documented effect of
education on earnings. The first channel is that education makes workers more productive …

Individual level risk factors for violence have been widely studied, but little is known about
country-level determinants, particularly in low and middle-income countries. We …

The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by
2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the …