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Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship / Lance Lochner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lochner, Lance.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16722.
- NBER working paper series no. w16722
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Non-Production Benefits of Education
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these 'non-production' benefits of education with an emphasis on contributions made by economists.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2011.
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