Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education

This paper develops an overlapping generations model of criminal behavior, which extends prior research on crime by taking into account parental decisions about their children’s education and about sending them to school when they become adolescents. Additionally, it is also assumed that acquired ab...

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Autor: MARCELO RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Brasil
Institución:Instituição de Ensino Superior e de Pesquisa (INSPER)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da INSPER
Idioma:inglés
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https://doi.org/10.1515/1935-1682.2992
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Palabra clave:early education
school dropout
criminal behavior
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spelling Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Educationearly educationschool dropoutcriminal behaviorThis paper develops an overlapping generations model of criminal behavior, which extends prior research on crime by taking into account parental decisions about their children’s education and about sending them to school when they become adolescents. Additionally, it is also assumed that acquired ability in childhood and school resources interplay to determine the student’s prob ability of leaving school before graduation. Therefore, considering that dropping out of school and criminality are endogenously determined by the quality of early childhood education, school inputs and law enforcement parameters, this paper offers a framework to study the effects of in terventions in early education on criminality and human capital accumulation vis-a-vis enhancing school resources and public spending on enforcement. Numerical simulations show that stimuli to increase investments in the education of children from disadvantaged families are much more cost-effective as a crime-prevention policy than expenditures on school resources and police pro tection.De Gruyter2022-10-31T15:17:40Z2022-10-31T15:17:40Z2012info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article26 p.Digitalapplication/pdfapplication/pdf1935-1682https://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/4577https://doi.org/10.1515/1935-1682.2992112The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & PolicyNão InformadoO INSPER E ESTE REPOSITÓRIO NÃO DETÊM OS DIREITOS DE USO E REPRODUÇÃO DOS CONTEÚDOS AQUI REGISTRADOS. É RESPONSABILIDADE DOS USUÁRIOS INDIVIDUAIS VERIFICAR OS USOS PERMITIDOS NA FONTE ORIGINAL, RESPEITANDO-SE OS DIREITOS DE AUTOR OU EDITORinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessengreponame:Repositório Institucional da INSPERinstname:Instituição de Ensino Superior e de Pesquisa (INSPER)instacron:INSPERMARCELO RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS2025-08-21T15:09:02Zoai:repositorio.insper.edu.br:11224/4577Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertaçõeshttps://www.insper.edu.br/biblioteca-telles/PRIhttps://repositorio.insper.edu.br/oai/requestbiblioteca@insper.edu.br || conteudobiblioteca@insper.edu.bropendoar:2025-08-21T15:09:02Repositório Institucional da INSPER - Instituição de Ensino Superior e de Pesquisa (INSPER)false
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title Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education
spellingShingle Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education
MARCELO RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
early education
school dropout
criminal behavior
title_short Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education
title_full Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education
title_fullStr Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education
title_full_unstemmed Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education
title_sort Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv MARCELO RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
author MARCELO RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
author_facet MARCELO RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv early education
school dropout
criminal behavior
topic early education
school dropout
criminal behavior
description This paper develops an overlapping generations model of criminal behavior, which extends prior research on crime by taking into account parental decisions about their children’s education and about sending them to school when they become adolescents. Additionally, it is also assumed that acquired ability in childhood and school resources interplay to determine the student’s prob ability of leaving school before graduation. Therefore, considering that dropping out of school and criminality are endogenously determined by the quality of early childhood education, school inputs and law enforcement parameters, this paper offers a framework to study the effects of in terventions in early education on criminality and human capital accumulation vis-a-vis enhancing school resources and public spending on enforcement. Numerical simulations show that stimuli to increase investments in the education of children from disadvantaged families are much more cost-effective as a crime-prevention policy than expenditures on school resources and police pro tection.
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