儿童早期教育对成人犯罪的影响:从20世纪60年代到90年代的证据

IF 5.6 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

American Economic Journal-Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI:10.1257/pol.20200660

J. Anders, Andrew C. Barr, Alexander A. Smith

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引用次数: 11

摘要

我们比较了不同时期儿童早期教育对成人犯罪行为的影响，使用的行政犯罪数据比现有的工作提供了显著的精度优势。我们发现，早期儿童教育的改善导致了后来犯罪行为的大幅减少(20%)，这种减少远远超过了之前研究中对考试成绩增长的估计。虽然所产生的收益占所提供教育成本的很大一部分，但我们发现，将资金定向到高度贫困地区和目前无法获得补贴医疗的地区，会带来可观的相对收益。(jel h75, i21, i26, i28, i32, i38, k42)

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The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Adult Criminality: Evidence from the 1960s through 1990s

We compare the effects of early childhood education on adult criminal behavior across time periods, using administrative crime data that provide significant precision advantages over existing work. We find that improvements in early childhood education led to large (20 percent) reductions in later criminal behavior, reductions that far exceed those implied by estimates of test score gains in prior studies. While the benefits generated account for a large portion of the costs of the education provided, we find substantial relative gains from the targeting of funds to high-poverty areas and areas without existing access to subsidized care. (JEL H75, I21, I26, I28, I32, I38, K42)

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American Economic Journal-Economic Policy ECONOMICS-

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8.20

自引率

1.90%

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期刊介绍： The American Economic Review (AER) is a general-interest economics journal. The journal publishes 12 issues containing articles on a broad range of topics. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in economics. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy publishes papers covering a range of topics, the common theme being the role of economic policy in economic outcomes. Subject areas include public economics; urban and regional economics; public policy aspects of health, education, welfare and political institutions; law and economics; economic regulation; and environmental and natural resource economics.