Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Does school choice reduce crime?

David J. Deming, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, finds that 
winning a lottery for admission to the school of choice greatly reduces criminal activity, and that the greatest reduction occurs among youth at the highest risk for committing crimes. The impacts persist beyond the initial years of school enrollment, seven years after the school-choice lottery was held.

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