Journal of Human Resources · 2023 · Drew McNichols、Joseph J. Sabia、Gokhan Kumpas
中文摘要
青少年体育项目的倡导者（包括联合国毒品与犯罪问题办公室）认为，体育竞技减少了参与者的犯罪，从而产生了外部社会收益。然而，关于体育参与对犯罪的影响，人们几乎一无所知。将《教育法修正案》第九篇的引入作为自然实验，我们发现，在高中期间接触高出10个百分点的女性体育参与率，使成年女性因第一类犯罪而被捕的人数每1,000人口减少了约0.5人。该结果与体育参与引起的教育获得和劳动力市场结果的改善相一致，并表明1972年《教育法修正案》第九篇具有重要的外部收益。
Abstract
Abstract Advocates of youth sports programs, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, argue that athletic competition reduces crime among participants, thereby generating external social benefits. However, next to nothing is known about the impact of sports participation on crime. Using the introduction of Title IX as a natural experiment, we find that exposure to a 10 percentage-point higher female sports participation rate while in high school reduced adult female arrests for Part I offenses by approximately 0.5 arrests per 1,000 population. This result is consistent with sports participation-induced gains in educational attainment and labor market outcomes and suggests important external benefits of the 1972 educational amendments to Title IX.