Partners in Crime: Schools, Neighborhoods and the Formation of Criminal Networks

We thank Phil Cook, Jon Guryan, Mark Hoekstra, Edward Kung, Jason Lindo, Justin McCrary for helpful comments/discussions as well as seminar participants at the Richmond Federal Reserve Regional Workshop 2015, University of Houston, University of Rochester, Wake Forest University, 2015 Southern Economic Association, 2015 Urban Economics Association Meetings, and the 2015 NBER SI Economics of Crime and Labor Studies Groups. We would also like to thank Brian Cunningham, Mike Humphrey and Monica Nguyen of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department; Julia Rush of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Department; Andy Baxter and Susan Freije from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. 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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