Preventing criminal minds: early education access and adult offending behavior

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• dc.contributor.author Brutti, Zelda
• dc.contributor.author Montolio, Daniel
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-11T06:42:42Z
• dc.date.available 2024-01-11T06:42:42Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract In this paper we estimate the impact of higher early preschool access on offending behavior later in time, exploiting a nationwide public preschool expansion that took place in Spain over the 1990s. This is the first study providing evidence on the relationship between preschool and crime using a large-scale, universal-access program rather than targeted initiatives reserved for disadvantaged children. Our identification strategy relies on the staggered implementation of the Spanish preschool expansion across regions and birth cohorts. We link the education data to a unique administrative crime dataset recording the offenses committed in the region of Catalonia over the period 2009–2014. On average, a 1 percentage point increase in preschool access among the age 0–3 population yields 1.6% fewer crime actions during youth and young adulthood. Larger effects on impulsivecrime categories provide suggestive evidence for non-cognitive-skills improvements being important drivers of our results
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors acknowledge support from grant 2015ACUP 00037 from RECERCAIXA (Obra Social La Caixa) and PID2019-109813RB-I00 from the Spanish Ministerio de la Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Daniel Montolio also acknowledges support from grant ECO2016-75912-R from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors acknowledge support from grant 2015ACUP 00037 from RECERCAIXA (Obra Social La Caixa) and PID2019-109813RB-I00 from the Spanish Ministerio de la Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Daniel Montolio also acknowledges support from grant ECO2016-75912-R from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.
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• dc.identifier.citation Brutti Z, Montolio D. Preventing criminal minds: early education access and adult offending behavior. J Econ Behav Organ. 2021;191:97-126. DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.08.035
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.08.035
• dc.identifier.issn 0167-2681
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58661
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2021;191:97-126.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/ECO2016-75912-R
• dc.rights © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Public preschool
• dc.subject.keyword Early education
• dc.subject.keyword Universal preschool
• dc.subject.keyword Kindergarden
• dc.title Preventing criminal minds: early education access and adult offending behavior
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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