{"__content__"=>"\n Objective\n \n \n Methods\n \n \n Results\n \n \n Conclusions\n \n ", "p"=>[{"__content__"=>"This paper analyzes the factors associated with a decline of 1.7 percentage points, from 5.7% to 3.9% (a 31.2% relative reduction), in youth crime in Chile between the cohorts born in 1996 and 2001."}, {"__content__"=>"Using a unique dataset linking national administrative records from the education and criminal justice systems, we employ a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition (henceforth, Oaxaca decomposition) framework to quantify the socioeconomic, behavioral, and contextual factors associated with this decline."}, {"__content__"=>"The decomposition analysis reveals that the explained share in the Oaxaca estimations ranges from 12.4% to 52.9% across crime outcomes and specifications. It also shows that peer characteristics are more important in explaining this decline than school and contextual characteristics. In particular, the most relevant peer factors are peer test scores, the share of peers whose mother has secondary education or more, peer household income, and peer cultural capital (proxied by the share of peers with a home computer and with more than fifty books)."}, {"__content__"=>"Even though the evidence presented in this paper is correlational, it can be useful to target support policies toward students at risk. For instance, the results show that grade retention during the first years of primary school could be a very relevant signal for future criminal behavior, suggesting that early detection of educational vulnerabilities could play a central role in sustaining long-term reductions in youth crime."}]}