TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cortés, Darwin
A1  - Friebel, Guido
A1  - Maldonado, Darío
T1  - Crime and education in a model of information transmission
T2  - Annals of public and cooperative economics
N2  - We model the decisions of young individuals to stay in school or drop out and engage in criminal activities. We build on the literature on human capital and crime engagement and use the framework of Banerjee (1993) that assumes that the information needed to engage in crime arrives in the form of a rumour and that individuals update their beliefs about the profitability of crime relative to education. These assumptions allow us to study the effect of social interactions on crime. In our model, we investigate informational spillovers from the actions of talented students to less talented students. We show that policies that decrease the cost of education for talented students may increase the vulnerability of less talented students to crime. The effect is exacerbated when students do not fully understand the underlying learning dynamics.
KW  - Human capital
KW  - The economics of rumours
KW  - Social interactions
KW  - Urban economics
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56314
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-563143
SN  - 0379-3699
VL  - 91.2020
SP  - 71
EP  - 93
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford [u.a.]
ER  -