ABSTRACT

A large literature documents that there are significant academic and non-academic differences between the youngest and oldest students in a school cohort. This paper investigates if being the youngest in a cohort has any impact on an individual's propensity to commit crime by utilizing a data set that contains over 4 million arrest records spanning a 20-year period in California. While I find no persistent effect on the probability of arrest, the youngest students in a cohort have a higher risk of arrest for certain offenses at age 14, corresponding to the age when they would transition to high school.

中文翻译：

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发展受阻：青少年和青年时期的相对入学年龄和逮捕

摘要

大量文献表明，学校群体中最年轻和最年长的学生之间存在显着的学术和非学术差异。本文利用包含加利福尼亚州 20 年期间超过 400 万条逮捕记录的数据集，调查了群体中最年轻的身份是否会对个人的犯罪倾向产生影响。虽然我发现逮捕概率没有持久影响，但队列中年龄最小的学生在 14 岁时因某些犯罪行为被捕的风险更高，这与他们过渡到高中的年龄相对应。