Better Schools, Less Crime? *

Better Schools, Less Crime?

I estimate the e ect of attending a rst-choice middle or high school on young adult criminal activity, using data from public school choice lotteries in CharlotteMecklenburg school district (CMS). Seven years after random assignment, lottery winners have been arrested for fewer and less serious crimes, and have spent fewer days incarcerated. Lottery winners attended schools that were higher qua...

Schools and Neighborhood Crime

Better management for better schools

Confirming "More Guns, Less Crime"

Analyzing county-level data for the entire United States from 1977 to 2000, we find annual reductions in murder rates between 1.5% and 2.3% for each additional year that a right-to-carry law is in effect. For the first five years that such a law is in effect, the total benefit from reduced crimes usually ranges between approximately $2 billion and $3 billion per year. Ayres and Donohue have sim...

The professionals: Better teachers, better schools

the professionals better teachers better schools What to say and what to do when mostly your friends love reading? Are you the one that don't have such hobby? So, it's important for you to start having that hobby. You know, reading is not the force. We're sure that reading will lead you to join in better concept of life. Reading will be a positive activity to do every time. And do you know our ...