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DESCRIPTION:This study focuses on violent crime as an important determinant
  of educational attainment. I use two different models\, a fixed effects m
 odel and an instrumental variable model to identify the causal effect of v
 iolent crime on educational attainment. First\, a city fixed effects model
  with city-specific linear trends exploits different trends in violent cri
 me among 229 major cities. The results indicate that the association betwe
 en violent crime and grade 12 enrollment is significant while the sameasso
 ciation with grade 9 enrollment is not. This difference suggests that stud
 ent drop-outs drive the decline in enrollment associated with a high viole
 nt crime rate. Second\, this study uses the implementation of the Electron
 ic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program as an instrument to estimate the effect 
 of violent crime on educational attainment. The EBT program implementation
  changed the method of payment for welfare recipients to debit cards from 
 paper checks. This change lowered local crime rates by reducing cash flow 
 and opportunities for crime in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Using the 1997
  National Longitudinal Survey of Youth\, two-stage least squares estimates
  show that exposure to violent crimes lowers educational attainment. These
  results provide evidence that non-educational policies can affect educati
 onal outcomes and shed light on the importance of coordinating educational
  and non-educational policies to enhance student educational outcomes.
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LOCATION:USA
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SUMMARY:Crime & EdAttain
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>This study focuses on violent crime as an i
 mportant determinant of educational attainment. I use two different models
 \, a fixed effects model and an instrumental variable model to identify th
 e causal effect of violent crime on educational attainment. First\, a city
  fixed effects model with city-specific linear trends exploits different t
 rends in violent crime among 229 major cities. The results indicate that t
 he association between violent crime and grade 12 enrollment is significan
 t while the same</p><p>association with grade 9 enrollment is not. This di
 fference suggests that student drop-outs drive the decline in enrollment a
 ssociated with a high violent crime rate. Second\, this study uses the imp
 lementation of the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program as an instrum
 ent to estimate the effect of violent crime on educational attainment. The
  EBT program implementation changed the method of payment for welfare reci
 pients to debit cards from paper checks. This change lowered local crime r
 ates by reducing cash flow and opportunities for crime in disadvantaged ne
 ighborhoods. Using the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth\, two-st
 age least squares estimates show that exposure to violent crimes lowers ed
 ucational attainment. These results provide evidence that non-educational 
 policies can affect educational outcomes and shed light on the importance 
 of coordinating educational and non-educational policies to enhance studen
 t educational outcomes.</p>
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