EDUCATION, WORK, AND CRIME: A HUMAN CAPITAL APPROACH*

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The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings

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The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports

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Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals,"

1986 • 1,413 citations

The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences

1996 • 1,391 citations

Significant Benefits: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 27

1993 • 1,264 citations

Crime Rates and Local Labor Market Opportunities in the United States: 1979–1997

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Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

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Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do About It?

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Criminal Victimization in the United States

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Learning and Experience in the Labor Market

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Market Wages and Youth Crime

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The Black Youth Employment Crisis

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The Effect of Arrests on the Employment and Earnings of Young Men

1995 • 403 citations

Crime and Economic Incentives

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Safe Port in a Storm: The Impact of Labor Market Conditions on Community College Enrollments

1995 • 322 citations

Juvenile Crime and Punishment

1998 • 304 citations

Control Theory and the Life-Course Perspective

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IQ as a protective factor for subjects at high risk for antisocial behavior.

1988 • 257 citations

Allocating Resources Among Prisons And Social Programs In The Battle Against Crime

1998 • 243 citations

IQ as a protective factor for subjects at high risk for antisocial behavior.

1988 • 242 citations

The Effect of Criminal Conviction on Income and the Trust "Reposed in the Workmen"

1994 • 235 citations

A prospective replication of the protective effects of IQ in subjects at high risk for juvenile delinquency.

1989 • 230 citations

On the cyclicality of schooling: theory and evidence

2002 • 227 citations

Education, Income, and Human Behavior

1975 • 225 citations

A prospective replication of the protective effects of IQ in subjects at high risk for juvenile delinquency.

1989 • 205 citations

The Syracuse University Family Development Research Program: Long-Range Impact of an Early Intervention with Low-Income Children and Their Families.

1987 • 201 citations

Chapter 52 The economics of crime

1999 • 192 citations

On the Relation between Education and Crime

1975 • 151 citations

Parent education as early childhood intervention : emerging directions in theory, research and practice

1988 • 146 citations

Criminal Deterrence: Revisiting the Issue with a Birth Cohort

1994 • 141 citations

The effects of criminality and conviction on the labor market status of young British offenders

1995 • 140 citations

The economics of crime

1999 • 138 citations

CRIME AND POVERTY: A SEARCH‐THEORETIC APPROACH*

2004 • 120 citations

A Dynamic Model of Differential Human Capital and Criminal Activity

2005 • 108 citations

Market Incentives for Criminal Behavior

1986 • 93 citations

The Effect of Prison Sentence Length on the Subsequent Employment and Earnings of Criminal Defendants

1999 • 88 citations

Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of the Job Corps

1981 • 88 citations

Felony Sentences in State Courts, 2004

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EMPLOYMENT, DETERRENCE, AND CRIME IN A DYNAMIC MODEL*

2004 • 75 citations

Inventing Criminology: Essays on the Rise of "Homo Criminalis"

1995 • 70 citations

Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections

2003 • 38 citations

An economic analysis of the age-crime profile

1994 • 21 citations

Employment, Dynamic Deterrence and Crime

2001 • 19 citations

A Dynamic Model of Differential Human Capital and Criminal Activity

2000 • 17 citations