Birthdays, Schooling, and Crime: New Evidence on the Dropout-Crime Nexus

Philip J. Cook, Songman Kang

NBER Working Paper No. 18791
Issued in February 2013

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We thank Peter Arcidiacono, Ken Dodge, V. Joseph Hotz, Jens Ludwig, Hugh Macartney, Justin McCrary, Seth Sanders, and Chris Timmins as well as participants at the 2012 Association for Public Policy and Management Conference for helpful comments. This research was supported with funds from Duke University. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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